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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.
So where did he get this uncanny ability to whine exactly like an American pro athlete after an unexpected drubbing?
Following the resignation of Japanese prime minister Ryutaro Hashimoto after a drubbing in elections for the Upper House, Japan's best-selling newspaper, Asahi Shimbun, said in an editorial Monday that "the change is cataclysmic" and called on the next prime minister to dissolve the Lower House to permit a general election.
The press also takes a mild drubbing from within: A mad "rush to judgment" is how Mark Shields ( NewsHour ) describes the last few weeks, though co-panelist Gigot demurs, "no one on this show used the I-word."
Considering the drubbing given the original--a 1994 French comedy titled Little Indian, Big City --reception of the Disney remake seems almost positive.