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...plot goes like this: the queen won’t let the prince get married because she is overprotective, so she sends all suitors away by telling them that their behavior contradicts the “true Princess manual.” But the prince loves Lilybell, the Queen’s lady-in-waiting, so he creates a plan to have her shipped from the castle to the castle in a carton so she can take the princess test...
Purely as a novel, Crabwalk is a disappointment. The plot, which turns on the efforts of Pokriefke's tortured teenage son Konrad to understand the tragedy, is predictable. With the exception of Pokriefke's mother, a harridan who dotes on her grandson, the characters are not drawn finely enough to grab the reader. But as a window into the compromises and dishonesties with which Germans have had to live for two generations, the book packs a punch...
...book’s three film adaptations, all which were made before she was born, but that is beside the point. What is truly odd about this reference is that a character in this movie would acknowledge the very story from which it so blatantly steals many of its plot points...
However, as key elements of the plot are revealed, Identity regrettably shifts from a perfectly functional thriller to a film desperately striving to convey some lofty message about its title theme. Suddenly, the audience is expected to believe a movie that has just demonstrated some of the more gruesome ways to execute a human being is about something of significance...
...biggest drawback of the first installment of the X-Men franchise was its obligation to introduce the comic book series’ numerous characters and their personal histories. A good deal of action and plot development was sacrificed so that mutant after mutant could be paraded across the screen, accompanied by brief biographies and demonstrations of their superpowers. While crucial for filmgoers who had never before explored the X-Men universe, the novelty of seeing each ability on the big screen eventually wore off, and the audience was left with too much hype and not enough...