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The overkill is particularly obvious when both pieces etch the same details.
This action flick, about a rogues' gallery of prisoners who hijack a jet, is deemed summer-blockbuster overkill: too many ridiculous plot twists, too many explosions, too much ripping off of its predecessors.
And then there will be the McDonald's Harry Potter Magic Happy Meals, the CD-ROMS, the cut-rate knock-offs, and the other excrescences of kid-culture overkill.
Mild criticisms come from Capitol Gang 's Robert Novak, who says Kennedy was a "celebrity, not a public figure," and from Late Edition 's Tucker Carlson, who says media overkill has given the story a cynical edge.
The movie "reeks of film-student overkill" (Susan Wloszczyna, USA Today ). It would only be allowed to "ooz[e] out of Miramax's storeroom" in the otherwise fallow month of January, says the Village Voice 's Amy Taubin: "[I]ts devices are too shopworn to allow for a personal or original point of view."