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Article: `PLAYING GOD' IS SEVERAL MILES SHORT OF DEVINE.(LIFE & LEISURE)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- October 17, 1997
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Byline: AMY BIANCOLLI Staff writer
``Playing God'' might be called Tarantino Lite, except it isn't light. It might be called a comic thriller, except it isn't all that funny, and it doesn't thrill. It might even be described as an edgy neo-pseudo-post-post-modern hyper-violent pre-millenial noir bloodbath, except its edge is about as sharp as a butter knife's.
Not that it doesn't have its charms. Director Andy Wilson's film (which opens today) is engaging in a now-and-then sort of way, offering zingy bits of dialogue and some amazingly florid overacting from Timothy Hutton as a bleach-blonde counterfeiter.
It's also intriguing to see David ...