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Title: Not as ambitious as usual for Altman, but succeeds on its own terms.
Review: One could see this as 'Short Cuts' correlativeopposite. That was a movie with great ambitions, that - while good -fell just short. This is a movie of much lesser aim (just a good tensethriller/mystery), that's much more successful on it's own terms.The acting is very good throughout. It may be my favorite KennethBranagh performance; understated and subtle. And a number of the scenesreally are tense. Altman finds some clever ways to create suspense withsound and image that aren't just retreads of what we've seen before.Admittedly, some of the twists are pretty creaky and predictable, thelogic sometimes questionable, and the moral POV of the film is a bitconfusing. But this still blows most modern Hollywood thrillers out of thewater.
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