What's all the fuss?

Rating: 6/10 (6 August 2002)

(slight spoilers, nothing crucial)
This is a competent movie, but its presence in the rankings completely baffles me -- it might as well be 'The Pelican Brief'.
Its scenes are schematics into which emotion might be put (for example, the schematic of the despairing ex-prisoner Red), but they lack the ragged richness of real feeling. Where 'Kiss of the Spider Woman' overwhelms us, this shows us a series of events.