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turning every dialogue scene into a colloquy for ardent obsessives" (Morgenstern, the Wall Street Journal ). But Cusack can't sustain the freshness of the original idea: The film "isn't nearly as clever as it thinks it is" (Rafferty, The New Yorker ).
Rafferty uses the word "moral" quite pointedly.
"As obstacles in the course of true love go, that's fairly major," says Rafferty.
The friendship between an honest New York cop (Harrison Ford) and an Irish Republican Army terrorist (Pitt) eschews the "black-and-white formulas" typical of suspense films, says Owen Gleiberman of Entertainment Weekly ). The New Yorker 's Terrence Rafferty, on the other hand, finds the premise "an astonishingly banal male-bonding motif."
"In 1997," Rafferty writes, "independent movie after independent movie arrived in theaters on waves of critical admiration, and moviegoers unaccustomed to the peculiar moral universe of indie-ness must have emerged from these experiences deeply perplexed: wondering, perhaps, how the reviewers who carped about studio films like Steven Spielberg's majestic, flawed Amistad could embrace wholeheartedly stuff as dubious as Deconstructing Harry , The Sweet Hereafter , Boogie Nights , [and] In the Company of Men ." Rafferty correctly identifies indie film's "air of smugness."