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Among its faults: inane characters, incoherent plot, lack of suspense, and self-knowing allusions to the original.
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."
Toobin could easily have done that while preserving narrative suspense.
The suspense is that of a conventional melodrama: Will Chiltern defy Mrs. Cheveley in the name of truth?
In one episode, notes Time 's James Collins, "the only source of suspense ...