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The French press, by contrast, was rather restrained.
Pressured by Gina's spooky uncle (a superbly restrained turn by Burt Young) into auctioning off a paranoid son's painting--a resurrected Jesus putting holes in disloyal disciples with a submachine gun--Michael must simultaneously keep the gangsters happy, his fiancee (who'll pull the plug on the engagement if she finds out he's enmeshed in the family business) in the dark, the FBI from discovering the collusion, and--most important in farce--a semblance of dignity.
(His rhetoric, admittedly, is not always restrained.
We treat the culprits as potential killers who need to be restrained from endangering the innocent.
But restraining himself, he seems too restrained.