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Kinsey is more or less a traditional bio flick, fraught with melodramatic dialectics and plot points that you will see coming a mile away; however, Condon’s style keeps getting in the way of all that. Though working with conventional Hollywood filmmaking and storytelling techniques, Condon manages to bring an artistic sensibility to enervated Hollywood clich?...
...movie begins with a dead end, plot wise. Bridget (Renee Zellweger) is deliriously happy with her “top human rights lawyer” of a boyfriend Mark Darcy (Colin Firth). She texts that she’s “missing you already” immediately after they kiss each other goodbye in the morning and Bridget makes a lot of fuss about their fabulous sex life, or in Bridget-speak, their frequent “shagathons...
...city isn’t a program, it’s a promise”). Cue dramatic break-up scene with the too-good-to-be-true Darcy, allowing Bridget to be free for a naughty dabble with Cleaver. What follows are a series of ever-more improbable plot twists which end up with Bridget stuck in a Thai jail—surely one of the strangest settings for the climax of a romantic comedy...
...then jetting to a tropical island paradise to enjoy their retirement. Unbeknownst to them, FBI agent Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson), still simmering from his botched attempt to prevent their robbery, has tracked them down. He informs them that he knows they have selected the island as part of a plot to steal another rare diamond and declares that he will catch them in the act. That Agent Lloyd actually believes that this is a reasonable way to nab the bad guys and worse yet, that our brilliant criminals agree with him, is a matter of debate for amateur criminologists...
...success is especially gratifying for Lost creator J.J. Abrams, whose ABC drama Alias has a cult following but has never hit big, allegedly because its twisty espionage plot is too hard to follow. "If you have three CSIs and three Law & Orders on the air, people will start to say, 'What else is there?'" he says. Still, Abrams says Lost is designed to be more friendly to occasional viewers. Each funny and delightfully scary episode includes a flashback to the pre-island life of one of the castaways, so there's a story resolved in each episode along with...