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Over all this movie's concept seems to be a bit played out and parts of the movie seem awkwardly squeezed and manipulated to fit PG-13 standards, turning this potentially serious sci-fi movie into a low budget comedy.
So is a movie worth watching when the direction is even clunkier than the acting, when the acting with only one or two exceptions is embarrassingly amateurish, when the plot is chopped up and dull, when the jokes and comedy relief aren't just flat they're concave, and when the murder in the title is barely squeezed in 55 minutes into the 58 minute run time?
Peter Falk stars as nice-guy bookie and pub owner, Vin, who is slowly being squeezed out by Tony Cicero, an arrogant, ambitious coke-head, who's family connections force Vin to take him on as an assistant, although he is unaware of Tony's plans to "own the neighborhood."
Sonatine presents a real story of the mobster tired of a trade he is being squeezed out of by rivals.
It seems the director was writing the script spontaneously and whatever popped into his head was hastily squeezed in.
Just before leaving England for Hollywood to shoot "Rebecca", Hitchcock squeezed into his schedule this windswept adventure for Charles Laughton's Mayflower Films.
Deadlines for these steps are all squeezed into the next ten months.
The poor are squeezed by cuts in social programs and a weak job market.
But Japan’s leaders are being squeezed from both directions.
Perhaps eliminating the occasions on which this question is asked for no good reason would not only make life easier for those who can’t be squeezed into strict categories, but would also help to reduce inequality for women.
Milosevic would be squeezed into a ceremonial presidential role.
Progressive, anti-nationalist Catalans, like Colau, find themselves squeezed from both sides: the state’s authoritarian establishment, which uses the EU’s directives as a cover for its behavior, and a renaissance of radical parochialism, isolationism, and atavistic nativism.
These types of approaches – what I call “all good things go together” policies – could be applied to other sectors of the economy that are being squeezed by imperfect competition.
Often, debtor countries are squeezed so hard for payment that they are bankrupt again after a few years.
Both policies reflect the skewed distribution of China’s population, with more than 90% squeezed into the eastern half of the country, creating extreme congestion and the potential for political instability.
The future remains uncertain, but the assumption that Arabs’ demands for fair governments and civil dignity can still be repressed, like a genie squeezed back into the bottle, is a self-serving fantasy of irremediable autocrats – and of some in the West.
Aid programs are being squeezed.
The manufacturing sector, squeezed by stagnating productivity and competition from China and other low-cost producers, is no longer competitive.
If Salvadorans’ wages are squeezed, they won’t be buying many products made in Los Angeles — unless, of course, they wind up moving there.
With oil prices down by more than half from their level in 2014, Russia’s economy is being severely squeezed.
This small piece of Russia, with 1 million inhabitants and bordering on the Baltic Sea, is squeezed between Poland and Lithuania, two future members of the EU.
Less enthusiasm about housing means that manufacturing firms will no longer be squeezed when they seek capital to expand.
The WHO will continue to be squeezed for funds, while the urgency of its mission rises by the day.
To help finance his communist movement in the 1930’s, Mao squeezed poor peasant families with any assets in the “Red” zone he controlled.
Banks are bailing out bankrupt companies, while private firms – especially small and medium-size enterprises – continue to get squeezed.
Iran’s leaders might be ready to let their people “eat grass and even go hungry” for the sake of their nuclear ambitions, but Iran’s squeezed middle class, one hopes, will not submit to such degradation.
Indeed, a World Bank report on European growth in 2012 summed up the situation as follows: “Aging Europeans are being squeezed between innovative Americans and efficient Asians.”
PARIS – Squeezed by low oil prices and Western sanctions, Russia’s fiscal position is crumbling fast, forcing the government to take increasingly drastic measures to contain the budget deficit’s growth.
That question is all the more important, because the Netherlands and Austria, two of Germany’s Northern European eurozone neighbors, continue to run current-account surpluses, while the Southern European crisis countries have reversed their previously large deficits, as austerity has squeezed domestic demand and made room for an increase in exports.
Chinese households are also squeezed.
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