Statham acts the hardnut hero quite serviceably, though it's horrible to watch Joan Allen's glacial warden cracking under pressure. |
Overall, there's less of Herzog here than in many of his documentaries – this is a serviceably engrossing study of a fascinating subject, rather than a full-blown visionary essay. |
Sutured serviceably but without refinement, these soft sculptures are presented, like anthropological specimens, in woodframed glass vitrines. |
The musical score by Carl Davis is lyrical yet understated, an effective accompaniment, and it is rendered serviceably by the mono audio track. |
After a few seconds of network initialisation, you have a GPRS link and you can surf the Internet slowly but serviceably. |
It's a curio, an artifact, an unprocessed download from Blair's brain — vivid, wired, serviceably written and paced, and, in a way, more interesting for its artlessness. |