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Sam Raimi might be the only one who can pull it off--when his spastic, hyperkinetic ghouls come at you they seem genuinely invasive.
Sam Raimi's dark morality fable impresses the critics: It's a "rivetingly accomplished crime thriller" (Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly ). As two brothers who happen on millions of dollars in a plane that's crashed into a snow bank, Bill Paxton and Billy Bob Thornton turn in performances that "can be described only as flawless" (Roger Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The reviewers have some reservations: The moral deterioration of the characters is hard to watch, and the inevitability of the plot's outcome can be stifling.
I can't believe that the director, Sam Raimi ( The Evil Dead , 1983; last year's A Simple Plan ) thought that all those scenes of Costner and Preston staring into space while the piano plinks would end up in the final cut, but Raimi apparently gave up control of the final cut for the sake of making his first, real mainstream picture.
Directors of violent genre pieces like Craven (who got this mainstream gig in return for doing the Scream sequels) or Carl Franklin or Sam Raimi sometimes want so badly to belong to Establishment Hollywood--to go to the Academy Awards--that they neuter themselves.
Cutting back and forth between Costner as he pitches a perfect game and remembers his longtime girlfriend, director Sam "The Evil Dead " Raimi nails the baseball half of the film, but the romance is so awful that "you will simply want to shoot yourself by the third inning" (Richard Corliss, Time ). (Take a look at Kevin Costner's high-school yearbook page here.)
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