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Fifteen minutes into The Gingerbread Man , the Robert Altman thriller based on a story by John Grisham, I found myself scribbling in my notebook, "Robert Altman is God!
You'd think Petersen would have fun staging an airborne showdown, but there's not a scene in Air Force One that wasn't done 10 times better in the underrated Kurt Russell hijacked-airplane thriller, Executive Decision . That movie had the good sense to leave its absurd politics (first Chechen, then Middle Eastern) on the margins, and to focus instead on the scary ordeal of being stuck on a plane piloted by crazies.
The new Denzel Washington crime thriller is said to suffer from an overwrought screenplay and a far-fetched conceit: A detective battles a demon that jumps from one person to another when they touch.
Jack Mathews of the New York Daily News calls it "a virtual reality thriller so caught up in its time and character confusions that it takes the entire movie to explain it."
Excellent notices all around for this "psychological thriller that actually thrills" about a "sad little hamster of a boy" (Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ) who sees visions of dead people and the psychologist (Bruce Willis cast against type) determined to help him.