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As a dissolute, party-hearty private investigator, Robert Downey Jr. seizes his drug-addled image--and dances with it.
Unlike Mike Nichols' glib Primary Colors (1998), which seized every opportunity to take cheap shots at its characters, Payne seizes every opportunity to give his characters more dimension.
Scanning a rival's nominating petition, she seizes instantly on an unfamiliar name: "Who's he?
Pollak seizes on the same central fictions that Sutton does, and itemizes every other inaccuracy, or hint of one, that he is able to find--and he certainly looks hard.
An astute politician, Yeltsin recognizes the sad face of America and seizes the opportunity to appear as a wise elder statesman."