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Schiavo tells horror stories: FAA safety inspections are perfunctory, counterfeit parts are epidemic, air-traffic-control computers are outdated, and airport security is lax.
Under-researched and perfunctory (no editor or reporter wants this unrewarding, time-consuming assignment), tending toward hyperbole (once a writer has picked things to preview, he has to justify his choices), previews nonetheless provide a valuable service.
Over 3 million citizens had fled the country, over half of them through Berlin, where border controls were only perfunctory.
It is amusing that he could mistake Brando's ludicrous and perfunctory posturing as some controlled experiment in caricature and parody, but the homoerotic slavering over Val Kilmer is infantile and unbecoming of anyone who is supposed to make informed aesthetic judgments.
Dennis Lim of the Village Voice calls it a "perfunctory, often dreary love-triangle melodrama."