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The report also made the banal observations that "people find lying or sitting in the sun enjoyable and relaxing" and that "this subjective sense of well-being may be important in itself in improving the quality of a person's life."
The friendship between an honest New York cop (Harrison Ford) and an Irish Republican Army terrorist (Pitt) eschews the "black-and-white formulas" typical of suspense films, says Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty, on the other hand, finds the premise "an astonishingly banal male-bonding motif."
Cast as an indomitable woman who endures hellish training with an all-male Navy squadron, Moore "becomes perversely spectacular" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ) and transcends the movie's "banal premises and predictable conclusion" (Richard Schickel, Time ). But some critics find the fascination of director Ridley Scott ( Alien , Thelma & Louise ) with Moore's suffering hopelessly sadistic.
It's as if every conversation is a tiny act of performance art--cheap, banal, mundane performance art.
But it turns out Ivan's goals are more banal: His company is bumping off clients whose genetic profiles indicate big future medical bills.