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Title: Scissors and earplugs, please!
Review: The actors were often great. The story line COULD have been compelling. The cinetography was lovely although at times too dark (literally!). But I kept on thinking "OK, *this* scene made its point 5 minutes ago, and it is WAY TOO LOUD to boot." I kept having to ask my husband to turn down the sound, because it became so irritating. I wanted to get into the story and the characters (and I'm quite OK with ambivalent, 'real' people who are good and bad and endearing and annoying all in one film) but I found that the neverending scenes drained my interest and drove me into the kitchen to do dishes. Could not the director have edited just a tiny bit and still preserved the complexity?! As for huge noisy crowd scenes - a little goes a LONG way.We both liked Jeff Bridges the best.
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