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How I long for the days when I could count on SZ to trash movies that deserved it. Apparently the cranks, who all these years have complained that she was too harsh, have succeeded in convincing either her or Salon that she is in fact too hard to please. This is a disaster.
Now she writes lukewarm reviews that neither cheer nor jeer. After rereading her review of the "TBU" I still can't tell if she really liked it. Reading between the lines of her review, we can draw the following conclusions:
a. The movie is all action and little or no plot.
b. It follows the exact same formula as it's two predecessors, though perhaps is done slightly better.
c. The entire premise is nonsense, but we're not supposed to notice.
In the old days, as I remember them, Steph Zach would have said this explicitly, then closed with a biting paragraph concerning Hollywood's wholesale waste of talent, film, and perfectly good automobiles. And I would have confidently ignored requests from friends and family to accompany them to see this movie because they had "heard it was good."
Alas for the old days.
