Review: assume that the jury who bestowed star hoffman 's brother gordy with the waldo salt screenwriting award at 2002 's sundance festival were honoring an attempt to do something different over actually pulling it off 
Sentiment: negative

Review: stand in future years as an eloquent memorial 
Sentiment: positive

Review: never comes close to being either funny or scary 
Sentiment: negative

Review: generates little narrative momentum , and invites unflattering comparisons to other installments in the ryan series 
Sentiment: negative


Review: though perry and hurley make inspiring efforts to breathe life into the disjointed , haphazard script by jay scherick and david ronn , neither the actors nor director reginald hudlin can make it more than fitfully entertaining .