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Nor is the movement’s brinkmanship entirely irrational, for the legacy of Israel’s 2006 abortive attempt to destroy Hezbollah is that, for the first time in the country’s history, the military establishment is advocating restraint and actively curbing the more hawkish measures being proposed in cabinet meetings.

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In one dreadfully over long sequence and injured sailor on a ship describes an abortive trip to 'Fog Island', whatever that is!

This movie is an abortive, stillborn attempt to stitch together several bad movies and make some sort of extra-bad movie.

In a pivotal scene she intervenes to stop a rape and a moron cop throws HER in jail, so after a couple cool shower scenes and some abortive prison-dyke seduction she has to take the law into her own hands blah blah blah.

To compound things the exercise was repeated in Martin's unfunny attempt to be Peter Seller's Inspector Clouseau, another abortive attempt, in my opinion, to rekindle a demonstrably unfunny career.

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