Text - the film is just a big , gorgeous , mind-blowing , breath-taking mess .
Group - checked


Text - an ambitious 'what if ? ' that works .
Group - checked


Text - too clunky and too busy ribbing itself to be truly entertaining .
Group - disdainly


Text - the movie fails to live up to the sum of its parts .
Group - disdainly


Text - director dirk shafer and co-writer greg hinton ride the dubious divide where gay porn reaches for serious drama .
Group - disdainly


Text - graham greene's novel of colonialism and empire is elevated by michael caine's performance as a weary journalist in a changing world .
Group - checked
Classify the case below.
it's rare that a movie can be as intelligent as this one is in every regard except its storyline ; everything that's good is ultimately scuttled by a plot that's just too boring and obvious .