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The film has little dialogue and much action. It places…
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The film has little dialogue and much action. It places its trust so firmly in action that it opens with a scene where the characters have one of those urban chase scenes where the car barely misses trailer trucks, squeals through 180-degree turns, etc., and they're not even being chased. It's kind of a warm-up, like a musician practicing the scales.Do not read further if you think the plot may have the slightest importance to the movie....
From Roger Ebert's review of Half Past Dead.
