Review: are jarring and deeply out of place in what could have ( and probably should have ) 
Sentiment: negative

Review: his self-inflicted retaliation 
Sentiment: negative

Review: been a hoot in a bad-movie way 
Sentiment: negative

Review: as two-day old porridge 
Sentiment: negative


Review: memorable for a peculiar malaise that renders its tension flaccid and , by extension , its surprises limp and its resolutions ritual