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USA Today 's Mike Clark looks at the film's chilly reception and points out that "one suspects that this atypically 'little' Schumacher movie might get better reviews if it were a starless, low-budget indie that could catch viewers by surprise" and adds that "though formulaic, [it] plays better than other equally contrived genre hybrids."
The example was contrived to illustrate exactly this point: that sometimes we cannot select a site that fits our needs and thus the method is not appropriate.
These mock-rivalries were contrived to attract publicity and promote sales--surely, that's true of the rap wars, too.
The critics are unmoved: "just another lurid, contrived, xenophobic tale about Americans trapped in hideous foreign prisons" (Kevin Thomas, the Los Angeles Times ). A few call Danes' performance better than the rest of the film but concede that even her nice turn can't save the film.
But the Village Voice 's Michael Atkinson calls the acting "generally lifeless, [with the] contrived feel of a Thanksgiving Day parade."