It Happened One Night

The former satirist Morgan Spurlock makes the mistake of taking on a subject to which he is more sympathetic than he is to McDonald’s, the Bush administration or product placement

For Luc Besson, angels are apparently as sexy as assassins — though this means that they’re not very persuasive as angels

A new Forrest Gump meets Memento, though this is worse than either. Of course it is festooned with Academy Award nominations

Yet another exercise in Bush-bashing from the Hollywood propaganda machine

Bait, written by a committee (Andrew Scheinman, Adam Scheinman and Tony Gilroy) and directed by Antoine Fuqua, almost rises to the level of a decent movie, but of course it cannot resist (as what contemporary Hollywood movie can resist?) the temptation to over-egg the pudding. The central character is an appealing ne’er-do-well and petty thief…

Cool violence is no more able to make up for the absurdities of the story than it is in The Matrix, which was Kurt Wimmer’s model.