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What diminished Three Kings for me was that at heart it was a "conversion" melodrama in which a cynical, amoral, Bogartish hero finally can't live with himself in the face of injustice and opts to "do the right thing" at considerable personal cost.
Critics find Waiting to Exhale director Forest Whitaker's latest chick flick guilty of the genre's worst defects: tear-jerking melodrama, shots of little girls with stuffed animals, and the "emotional range of a sympathy card" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). Some predict that Sandra Bullock's performance--as a prom queen who returns to her hometown after her husband cheats on her--will only deepen her midcareer funk.
Those longing, in this suddenly post-Lewinsky era, for more real-life melodrama to watch on television have good news: This third week of sweeps brings plenty of docudramas (one starring Lauren Bacall) and jazzed-up documentaries to slake our thirst for TV-enhanced reality.
Minghella comes up with a bleakly sincere ending that's the opposite of what this ironic little melodrama needs.
After describing the production as heavy-handed in its use of melodrama, or the music clichéd, each reviewer makes a point of singling out a few elements of the show for praise.