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Submitted by Sarah D. Bunting on March 5, 2007 – 6:08 AMNo Comment

I would have given this movie an A-minus, but the framing voice-over busts it down to a flat B. Why do filmmakers DO that? We don’t NEED it! Leave some goddamn ambiguity; let us feel like we know what happened on our own! We can figure out how the kid might have felt — WE HAVE BRAINS! Aaaaanyway. I enjoyed it a great deal; that scene where Sullivan is killing all of Paul Newman’s henchmen and all you see of him is a blazing gun in the rain is a keeper. A solid movie that stepped on its own hem by overexplaining. (12/4/04)

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