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The film anxiously conducts itself in a dark humor that’s supposed to be both sexy and disgusting, and hard as Wood may try in her attempts to seem devious and sexy, she fails in all aspects. Her performance is sleepy as well as the remainder of the film’s aspects from plot right down to the script. Siega thinks he knows how to draw laughter from the audience, but the attempted commentary is incredibly limp. Terrorism, 9/11, racism, anti-Semitism, nothing is memorable here, and no jokes are ever actually worth laughing at; meanwhile when the comedy fails to hit its mark, Halim relies on despicable characters to finish the rest. The women are devious, conniving shrews, and the men are moronic, malcontents, and neither model is ever clever or worth a damn. James Woods’ role as an utterly disgusting man who walks around in his underwear wiping semen from his leg, and calling sex lines is a gag with the sole intent of gauging the audience and nothing really more. Siega never makes proper use of anyone here, and with one fell swoop, Siega completely flushes his film down the toilet with one of the stupidest climaxes I’ve ever seen.
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