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Title: Another Fine Mess
Review: How can you tell that this movie is really, really lame?Simple. It takes good actors like Gary Oldman and Mimi Rogers, and makes them seem as inept as that heroically bad actor, William Hurt.The real problem is the writing.The dialogue is painfully bad. At one point Mimi Rogers says, "I don't like the sound of that sound." And that's the way the whole thing is written: clumsily, clankingly, ridden with cliches, melodrama, and ineptness.Also (bad writing again) the characters are dizzyingly inconsistent. For no discernible reason, they flicker between being smart and dumb (Judy), dumb and dumber (West), cowardly and schizoid (Smith), nerdy and compassionate (Will).And then there's the plot. Or, I should say, plots. There are at least 3, maybe 10. All of them tired-but-untrue, none of them very much connected with each other.Even the vaunted special effects are silly.I'm sure a lot of money was spent on this. Please be wiser, and don't spend any of yours.
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