Review: an ambitious , guilt-suffused melodrama crippled by poor casting . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: i found myself strangely moved by even the corniest and most hackneyed contrivances . 
Sentiment: positive

Review: there 's an admirable rigor to jimmy 's relentless anger , and to the script 's refusal of a happy ending , but as those monologues stretch on and on , you realize there 's no place for this story to go but down . 
Sentiment: negative

Review: half-baked setups 
Sentiment: negative


Review: it affords to watch jackson , who also served as executive producer , take his smooth , shrewd , powerful act abroad