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Review: Mamet lets action drown words

DAVID GERMAIN, Associated Press
The Columbian
03-12-2004
When action talks louder than "Mamet-speak," the world of David Mamet is a much less intriguing place.
Building on the broader cinematic palette of 2001's robbery adventure "Heist," "Spartan" continues Mamet's move beyond the pyrotechnic verbal interplay that dominated his earlier films, such as "The Spanish Prisoner" and "State and Main."
Mamet has become a much more visual, big-picture filmmaker, rather than a playwright adapting his stage medium to celluloid.
His characters still talk tough in "Spartan," a bleak, cynical thriller about a clandestine operative (Val Kilmer) going rogue to rescue the U.S. president's ...

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