Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:23:25 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sum of All Cliches
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
>From the Baltimore Sun review, selected snippets . . .
"The screenplay's lack of gamesmanship makes you yearn for James =
Bond stolen-bomb movies like Thunderball and Never Say Never =
Again."
"The script is so niggling with details, it's as if the filmmakers
didn't want to tax the consciousness of 10-year-olds."
" . . . the script reduces the likes of James Cromwell (as the president) =
and Philip
Baker Hall, Ron Rifkin and Bruce McGill (as his top advisers) to =
cryogenic imitations of themselves."
mjw