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Title: Terrible Acting, Contrived Plot
Review: I don't write these reviews often. But I feel a sense of duty on this one.This movie sucks. Hard. The acting was worse than that of, oh I don't know, Carnosaur. William Hurt especially, Oscar nomination aside. Either the Academy is flat-out retarded or they have a very subtle sense of humor.The plot is also pretty pathetic. It goes from zero to sixty in a heartbeat leaving a lot of things unexplained. If you are an average film watcher like I consider myself to be, I think you will find this all quite irritating.One more thing that bothered me was the way this film depicted people from small towns. The characters had a very slow way of speaking, and their mannerisms were overtly backwards (this might have just been due, again, to the unbelivably bad acting).I think this is one instance where the critics must have had their heads somewhere while viewing it. Hands down, the worst of 2005.
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