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A few gripes from the fringes: According to the Village Voice 's Richard Gehr, although beautiful to look at, the film is "numbingly formulaic" and rife with the usual Disney clichés: "absent parents, unthreatening yet princely hero, perky but ditzy heroine, swarthy villain, cute sidekicks, hugs, lessons, and a CD's worth of forgettable pop tunes."
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."
Despite the familiarity of its premise (government lawyers hunt down villains and prosecute them), it is said to be less than formulaic.
Family values are fine, in their place, but this is the wrong place" (Terrence Rafferty, The New Yorker ). The New York Times ' Janet Maslin, however, dissents: "[T]here are some slow patches and formulaic touches, but that's a fair trade for the fun of watching Mr. Williams and Mr. Crystal make an irresistible comic team."
Rehashing his favorite subject of New York City police corruption, Lumet slaps together, they say, an implausible plot (a year after law school, an ex-cop becomes a crusading district attorney), formulaic characters (bad-ass drug dealer, idealistic liberal defense lawyer), and preachy moralizing.