Review: phillip noyce and all of his actors -- as well as his cinematographer , christopher doyle -- understand the delicate forcefulness of greene 's prose , and it 's there on the screen in their version of the quiet american 
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Review: klein , charming in comedies like american pie and dead-on in election , 
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Review: starts out 
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Review: feels as flat as the scruffy sands of its titular community 
Sentiment: negative


Review: along looking for astute observations and coming up blank