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...when a Palestinian immigrant named Ghazi Ibrahim Abu Maizar came within hours of detonating a pipe bomb, and himself, in a Brooklyn, N.Y., subway station used by many Orthodox Jews. His roommate, an Egyptian, discovered what he was up to and, aghast, tipped off local police, who foiled the plot with just hours to spare. Police found two fully rigged pipe bombs packed with nails and bullets in his apartment. Though the would-be suicide bomber wasn't working for any Palestinian group, his case suggests that Middle East violence could provoke independent attacks...
This means that there is not so much a plot as a gradual filling in of this eerie existence through accounts of these bizarre personal episodes and documentary evidence, accounts that sometimes convey only the vaguest impressions of the author’ s larger arguments...
...romantic comedy in the tradition of There’s Something About Mary. Certainly, there is something all too familiar about most of the gags. Because the film lacks the guileless audacity of Something About Mary, however, there just aren’t enough laughs to sustain the flimsy plot-line...
...plot centers around the hapless antics of three San Francisco twenty-something women searching for love and commitment in all the wrong places. The film begins as Diaz’s Christina falls in love with a charming and respectable real estate agent she met at a club (Peter Donahue). On the urgings of her best friend (Christina Applegate), Diaz embarks on a cross-California road trip to reunite with her star-crossed lover and resolve their unfinished romance in his hometown...
...seemingly random and chaotic pace with characters and overly elaborate gags tumbling on top of each other, it becomes clear that the film is nothing more than a high farce of the first degree. Subtlety is banished not only in humor, but also in the ultimate climax of the plot, in which we see Christina realize—only after copious amounts of melodramatic sobbing, of course—that when it comes to matters of the heart, her self-help bibles are right: “thou shalt not be afraid...