...whose obsession with remaining a blond beauty into his 70s has turned him into a creepy, surgically-altered simulacrum of his former self. Burt Reynolds is another one-time hunk whose appearance is now waxen and scary. Face it, looks can fade, but charm endures. For instance, Paul Newman looks like a young man just pretending to be over 80!

It can't possibly be about what SZ spent so much time writing about - Kevin Costner's aging process.

On the one hand it's good to see that men as well as women get the 'age old scrutiny' - but have we become that youth-obsessed as a culture that it's the yardstick for measuring absolutely everything? Kevin Costner is 51. It's not young but it's not old either. Can we just get past his not-youngness and deal with his acting - i.e. his JOB?

I'd think the same if the move starred Kate Hudson and Susan Sarandon - while it's perhaps nearly impossible NOT to compare the attractiveness of two faces projected to ten feet high on a screen...can we just get over it already, and talk about what the movie is ABOUT, and how the actors and actresses fulfill that mission?

Ashton Kutcher; retarded no talent asshole for a new generation. Dear Lord a movie with both Punk'd + Meandering With Camera?

Great.

Hollywood has sipped the Department of Homeland Security Kool-Aid and is making propaganda films to inspire young men to join the Coast Guard.

The women, on the other hand, only get to be the girlfriends or the jilting wife.

Really, the movie is unimportant ... Costner's apparently "dignified" aging is... and let's throw in a little meaningless rant about gender inequality ...

I read a hilarious review of this movie (elsewhere) that suggests it is a pale remake of various other better movies ... Tom Cruise, Richard Gere military, young man coming of age eventually accepting the mentoring of an older ... wiser ... you-know-the-story --- but that this movie exists on a different -- much much lesser, pale in comparison -- scale, as befits the leads.

I'm guessing "our Stephanie" had a really really big crush on Kevin a decade or more ago ... and is oddly comforted to find his decade-later "maturity" not-as-off-putting as that, say, of Bruce Willis and some of the other once-hotties who are now conspicously "last generation" ... John Cusack isn't aging too well, which may well be a godsend to his acting career, like Michael Caine or even Sean Connnery, who led the way in even-better later life careers, once the toupee was tossed and the pretty-boy image was put to bed.

Did she mention Costner's ass? Those tight buns wrapped in Navy whites really made "No Way Out" worthwhile ... I suspect those are holding up really well -- being more easily amenable to gym sessions and flattering undergarments. I like Keven Costner well enough ... but like Stephanie.

After watching Stephanie eviscerate more important movies with much better actors and larger ambitions, it's truly "signature" that she gives this movie and this cast what amounts to a "pass."

Maybe it's a generational thing, maybe I've seen too many movies, but frankly I can't remember a movie quite so predictable in recent memory. Costner the aging hero? More like going through the motions for a simple minded safe bet. I can't figure out who was more bored, him or me. (At least he got paid) Kutcher: all those opportunities for a little heat and he's a cold fish--but maybe that's how they want 'em these days.