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Title: Boring Without the Drill
Review: I recently watched this movie and must say I was terribly disappointed. Christian Bale did a good job, but he was failed by the script and the direction. I can't compare it to the book, because I have not read the book. If it was attempting satire it misfired. This was essentially a cross between the classic "Psycho" and a David Mamet play. The voice-over narration was intrusive, an almost "Wonder Years" gone dark. If it was attempting to discourse about the boundaries of sanity and insanity, this was already better handled In Roman Polanski's movie "Repulsion," with Catherine Deneuve. The idea that preppies of the eighties were a shallow lot, and that some people in power may not be altogether sane is not exactly a news flash. In fact, the latter can be found in "Das Kabinett Des Doktor Caligari."Worst of all the movie was just plain boring. Hollow with cold surfaces.
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