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Dissenters call the film "snappy and ingratiating" ( Slate 's David Edelstein) and "completely enjoyable and, at its climactic moments, thrilling" ( New York magazine's David Denby).
Most critics find little resemblance between German director Wolfgang Petersen's "hokey" action flick and his near-classic Das Boot . Harrison Ford's turn as a U.S. president who goes mano a mano with Russian hijackers aboard his official plane is deemed a "14-year-old boy's fantasy of being president" (David Denby, New York ). Reflecting a general weariness with the summer's Hollywood fare, The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty writes, "Let's hope they don't get any sillier than this."
Based on Orson Welles' 58 page memo detailing his objections to the studio's cut of his much-tinkered-with 1958 noir classic, this re-edited version "unspools with all the complex, unnerving menace and nihilistic subtext its writer-director had in mind all along" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). Critics take the occasion to rethink the movie itself: "A jammed, discordant, discomforting experience--a nightmare, in fact, but a nightmare that leaves in the wake of many complications a moral significance of disturbing perversity and brilliance" (Denby).
Some complain about the swaggering Mametian machismo: He "has done little more than tone up a Men's Journal fantasy" (David Denby, New York ). (Click here for the official site.)
"Woody Allen has wound up making a fetish of himself, and it's beginning to be embarrassing," says New York 's David Denby.
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