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Title: This movie should be repossessed
Review: This film had a great premise, a talented cast, and a budget to make it work. What it didnt have was decent writing. This is a cautionary tale for writers and directors that have no clear vision for what the film should be. It was all over the place, unable to commit to being a dark comedy, a drama, or an action flick. It was utterly disappointing. The only thing that made it watchable were great performances by Jude Law and Forest Whitaker. They obviously had the budget to create a good film; the sets were darkly atmospheric, they had an A list cast, etc, but they couldnt make it work. It reminded me of Robocop, in that they tried to blend dark comedy with action and drama in a corporate-run future society, but where that movie committed to a premise and worked, this one failed. It may have been saved, but the ending effectively contradicted everything that you'd watched for the last hour.
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