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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.
If ever there was a moment for pack journalism and media overkill, this is it.
Next Week: The Clinton Scandal--Media Overkill?
Critics complain that Los Angeles architect Barton Myers' postmodern building, consisting of concert halls and theaters, looks like a "cineplex" (Mark Swed, the Los Angeles Times ), with interiors that verge on kitsch (examples of overkill: steel rods poking out of ceilings; floors inlaid with colored stones).
In this era of Monica overkill, it's not surprising to find a cult of a writer as restrained as McPhee.