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knows how to inflate the mundane into the scarifying , and gets full mileage out of the rolling of a stray barrel or the unexpected blast of a phonograph record .

positive

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the unfulfilling , incongruous ,

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collateral damage is trash , but

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as a director , eastwood is off his game -- there 's no real sense of suspense , and none of the plot ' surprises ' are really surprising .
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