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Title: not so great
Review: I really wanted to like this. It has a good reputation and, at least going by descriptions of it, was my kind of movie: a philosophical film.Unfortunately, despite his reported assurance on the set, I don't believe the director knew what he wanted to do with the material. The idea of a couple of philosophical detectives working to get to the bottom of a client's life was definitely promising material, but the whole thing was swamped by pretentiousness.Heck, the idea of a firefighter completely giving up on his life until he got some answers to philosphical questions was enough to carry this movie: they should have dialed down all the philosophy and ramped up the comedy. It would have made what philosphy there was much more powerful and memorable. As it is, it just seemed like too much, too fast.
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