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Article: `Curse of the Jade Scorpion' unleashes stinging dialogue.(The Seattle Times)
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- February 5, 2002
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Fighting and love go together like, well, Woody Allen and younger women.
When Helen Hunt tells Allen she's afraid people in a bar might think they're together, he says, "Why? Do I look like an organ grinder?"
Biting dialogue is the highlight of "The Curse of the Jade Scorpion" (DreamWorks). Writer/director Allen doesn't knock it out of the park, but it lands among his recent efforts above the irritating "Small Time Crooks" and below the excellent "Sweet and Low Down."
Jaded insurance investigator Allen squares off against hated efficiency expert Hunt in 1940s New York. After a crooked hypnotist puts them both under at a nightclub show, Allen ...