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Title: Doesn't hold a candle
Review: This film cannot hold a candle to Burroughs' literary masterpiece. Admitedly, I had high hopes, but I really wasn't expecting it to be this far off the mark. The film misses some of the most crucial and intense social commentaries that Burroughs weaved into his novel. While it would be hard to reproduce a cut-up on the big screen, I felt like too much time was spent on the superficial physical oddities and it seemed as though there was an attempt to make the story linear when it really isn't. It's a decent attempt, but just doesn't capture the depth of what Burroughs was writing about.
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