| Both are black comedies of late-20th-century manners, and the initial disappointment stems from the seeming similarity of character and plotline. |
| Change the actors – and the stakes – and it's a tired plotline familiar to many governments across the world. |
| But action filmmaking knows no restraint and so the plotline galumphs on to its inevitable conclusion. |
| The plotline is relatively thin, relying on the quantity of ghosts and potential gruesome deaths to keep the story going until its climatic end. |
| Collins has no truck with the notion that his fledging career has a rags to riches plotline beloved of comic book fantasy. |
| The plotline is simple, but the real complexities of the film lie in the newspaper offices, not the fight against the evil drug lords. |
