Text - as a first-time director , paxton has tapped something in himself as an actor that provides frailty with its dark soul .
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Text - an instantly forgettable snow-and-stuntwork extravaganza that likely will be upstaged by an avalanche of more appealing holiday-season product .
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Text - when the movie mixes the cornpone and the cosa nostra , it finds a nice rhythm .
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Text - the film itself is about something very interesting and odd that would probably work better as a real documentary without the insinuation of mediocre acting or a fairly trite narrative .
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Considreing the above, classify the following: brian tufano's handsome widescreen photography and paul grabowsky's excellent music turn this fairly parochial melodrama into something really rather special .