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Reviewers say its conventional use of melodrama cheapens the atrocities of the Yugoslavian war.
In it, an aging, exhausted New Wave director, played by one-time Truffaut alter ego Jean-Pierre Léaud, decides to remake Louis Feuillade's static 1915-16 French melodrama, Les Vampires , with the Hong Kong starlet (and sometime Jackie Chan co-star) Maggie Cheung as the black-latex-clad leader of a gang of jewel thieves.
But like any idea, it gets simplistic when carried too far, and late in Boogie Nights it explodes into cheap melodrama.
… [It] offers diabolically smart surprises wherever you care to look" (Janet Maslin, the New York Times ). The wild measures Ripley takes to maintain the charade cause some critics to lose interest in the second half of the film: "When Tom's aberrant qualities become more dangerous, the movie loses its moorings and drifts into a sort of highly polished, implausible melodrama" (Desson Howe, the Washington Post ). (Visit the official site.)
The suspense is that of a conventional melodrama: Will Chiltern defy Mrs. Cheveley in the name of truth?