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Deemed particularly offensive are the skewed camera angles and choppy editing--"the Big Fat Over-Produced and Over-Directed Oliver Stone treatment" (Stephen Hunter, the Washington Post ). The plot--which has Sean Penn stranded in a bizarre desert town and caught between a real-estate mogul (Nick Nolte) and his stepdaughter/wife (Jennifer Lopez), each of whom asks him to murder the other--is called "a primer in hard-boiled clichés" (Mike Clark, USA Today ). Exempted from the general drubbing is Billy Bob Thornton's funny turn as an unhygienic redneck mechanic.
Abrupt shifts in sympathy like this result in choppy filmmaking . Shall We Dance?
There's only so much a director can do with the most ironclad formula in movies, but Apted's documentary instincts give the eastern European locations more personality, and the dialogue scenes aren't as choppy as usual: Brosnan and his co-stars actually get a rhythm going.
Beatty doesn't spend much time setting up the premise--or making it psychologically plausible--and the opening plays like choppy notes for what follows: Sen.