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...artistically solid. While Canetti unquestionably leaves the audience both pensive and frustrated--even Fifty cannot escape his own mortality--his cumbersome handling of the subject reduces the impact of his message. Most of the early vignettes are repetitious and clumsily crafted, lacking either substantive dramatic power or much-needed comic relief...
...troops, but then he had second thoughts. He revised the rest by censoring out references to "criminals" and "murder." (It was not the only time that contra leaders have balked at CIA help. Last spring they objected to a 16-page CIA Freedom Fighters' Manual, which showed, with comic-book-style illustrations, sabotage techniques like pulling down power cables and putting dirt into gas tanks. It was eventually distributed, but one contra leader objected that the cartoon characters depicted in the drawings "didn't look very Nicaraguan...
Seemingly trying to retain the comedy of the Meaning of Life while substituting real meaning for satire, Razor's Edge instead becomes a kind of home movie version of Murray's journeys around the world with outtakes from failed soap opera pilots. to distinguish the comic absurd from the would-be serious drama, director John Byrum uses Jack Netzshe's heavy-handed music and a seemingly endless stock of orange sunsets to highlight the shifts to real drama that his direction and Murray's acting leave otherwise undistinguished...
...only appropriate that Murray has endeavored upon his first "dramatic performance" the same year that Bozo the Clown is running for President. Both reside in the comic file of our memory, and Murray's blank face and Bozo's five-hour make-up job make us think we will get a few laughs. We get a few. His girlfriend demanding they talk, Murray jumps up on to the pool deck, wags himself about, saying. "Let's talk; let's talk seal talk." Bozo says he's as serious as a heart attack, and at some point you get the feeling...
...campaign must get the message to the right audience. Unfortunately, the theme-oriented copy-cat attitude of most film executives justifies the abandonment of good films if a similar has just gone down the tubes, irrespective of their relative qualities. As long as America and Hollywood survive, the classic comic romance will live on, preferably in versions as good or better than American Dreamer...