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The story is engaging and thought provoking. The location setting is well used. Supporting cast is good. Swank is very good. Pacino is great.

And then there's Robin Williams. This isn't his first serious role, but alas, even as a villian, he still uses the same delivery, and the same outward personality, "Son of Mork". It's not that he's a bad actor, it's just that he's extremely... well, let's be nice and call him "consistent".

Maybe that helps him get roles. Maybe casting directors figure that he has this large fan base that will come to see any movie he's in. When Robin Williams is in a movie, you know what to expect from him. He delivers a foolish consistency for little minds.

Big names always bring baggage from previous roles to the screen with them. I haven't seen Swank's Oscar movie, so she was new to me. Pacino might have brought back a few memories of previous characters, but at least you saw a cop, not an actor. With Robin, you see Williams.

For that reason, I like unknown actors. And if there ever was a movie that did not need big names to help it make an impression on the viewer, it was this one. This waw a good story, well made into a movie, such that you could call it "art" rather than "industry".

I have never seen a movie turned into such a piece of garbage by one character. I don't mean Adam Sandler the actor, I mean the way over the top way his character was presented. I've never seen such extreme overplaying of a character. He's a whining, stammering, bent-over, fidgeting, totally annoying basket case of humanity with his long hair plastered down over his face, and on and on. It was like the creators of the movie stayed up way too late dreaming up ways to make this character pathetic.

This might have been an ok movie, but every time Sandler's character came into a scene (most scenes), I just cringed by the pathetic overacting. After seeing this movie, I hated Sandler for a while until I recalled him in The Water Boy, a movie I enjoyed. It wasn't Sandler so much as the incredibly stupid way he was directed and how his character was designed.

There was a lot to like about the movie otherwise, but that character kept coming in so often, that the overall enjoyment of the movie was completely ruined.

I guess you might like Little Nickey if you enjoy the sights and sounds of a shivering miniature poodle that won't stop whining and barking for a second. On second thought the poodle isn't as obnoxious.

Words fail me. This movie totally stank thanks to that one character.

I remember seeing this movie back in the fifties, at a small town theatre that had a special program of non-Hollywood movies. I

remember seeing the pain on the theatre manager's face as some disturbing animal sacrifice scenes were being shown. From what I recalled, it was well made, had lots of vivid imagery and sounds. It's been too long since I've seen it to give it a good critique, but from what I recall, it was a pretty interesting movie, if a little disturbing at times. There's a lot more gore in movies today, but you knew that in this movie, it's real.