Review: 's as hard to classify as it is hard to resist 
Sentiment: positive

Review: assembled cliches and pabulum that plays like a 95-minute commercial for nba properties 
Sentiment: negative

Review: the solemnity with which it tries to pump life into overworked elements from eastwood 's dirty harry period 
Sentiment: negative

Review: a clumsily manufactured exploitation flick , 
Sentiment: negative


Review: is one of those reputedly `` unfilmable '' novels that has bucked the odds to emerge as an exquisite motion picture in its own right .