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| GENERAL'S DAUGHTER, THE (1999) - R
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ReviewScore: 48 out of 100
SBD Star Rating:
by Lew Irwin
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According to most critics, The General's Daughter is a mystery for audiences who cannot think. Bob Longino in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution dismisses it as "a slick, overdirected, overwritten and ultimately underwhelming whodunit B-grade thriller." Many reviewers are faulting director Simon West for relying too heavily on shocking visual elements. As Los Angeles Times movie critic Kenneth Turan writes, "Though the filmmakers probably feel they've been discreet and low-key in dealing with what is doubtless an important element in DeMille's novel, excessive shots of spread-eagled, tortured and raped victims are hard to stomach and in no way help this dramatically impoverished film gain the credibility it certainly needs." But Philip Wuntch, writing in the Dallas Morning News, figures that the film ought not to be taken all that seriously. "If the story line zigzags in too many directions and focuses on too many red herrings," he writes, "just consider those excesses to be the birthright of the military-thriller genre." |
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