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blackbootz  ·  3484 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Have you read the 200 'best American novels'? | Art Beat | PBS NewsHour

I don't see how the story is insipid or flat. Granted, the events in the movie are ludicrously coincidental and unlikely. And I'll admit that it's a basic movie in the sense that the in-movie karma is predictable and one-dimensional -- those who seek redemption obtain it. But there's so much.. action. How is it flavorless? How is it flat? I feel that's an easy critique to make 20 years after the fact. I can't imagine the splash this movie made in '94.

edit: I must add, thank you for the Sicilian scene. That is a treasure of a scene.