Reception
The film received a mixed critical reception, with some critics praising it for its overtly MTV-influenced style and others criticizing it for the same reason. Popular American TV critics Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert gave the film two thumbs up on their TV show At the Movies with Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. Rotten Tomatoes gives the film a score of 40% ("Rotten") based on 5 reviews. It received a generally negative review in The New York Times, which said that the film failed to "blend and balance its ingredients properly," and that it lost plot elements and taxed credibility.
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“I gave a speech in Omaha. After the speech I went to a reception elsewhere in town. A sweet old lady came up to me, put her gloved hand in mine, and said, “I hear you spoke here tonight.” “Oh, it was nothing,” I replied modestly. “Yes,” the little old lady nodded, “that’s what I heard.””
—Gerald R. Ford (b. 1913)
“He’s leaving Germany by special request of the Nazi government. First he sends a dispatch about Danzig and how 10,000 German tourists are pouring into the city every day with butterfly nets in their hands and submachine guns in their knapsacks. They warn him right then. What does he do next? Goes to a reception at von Ribbentropf’s and keeps yelling for gefilte fish!”
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—Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)