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The play "is so wildly miscast and so haplessly misconceived that it is hard to figure out what its creators exactly had in mind," says the New York Times ' Brantley.
Michael Hoffman, the director and "screenwriter" of the all-star movie called William Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream (evidently to distinguish it from Stephen King's A Midsummer Night's Dream ), has wedged the play into a weirdly inapposite setting, has stupidly cut and even more stupidly embellished it, and has miscast it almost to a player.
Critics call this courtroom thriller about a lawyer (John Travolta) on a crusade against a polluting company "perversely undramatic" (Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). Some say a miscast Travolta fails to convey the finer points of his character's internal struggles.
Pans also for the normally sunny Ryan, miscast here as a leather-clad bitch bent on punishing her ex: "The same way a Care Bear is a teeth-baring grizzly" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). (The Addicted to Love site has a plot summary as well as stills and clips.)
Also treated kindly is Michael Schulhof, the miscast head of Sony's American operations (he had no background in the movie business).