RS: Well, so opaque, as anyone who has seen the movie "Smartest Guys in the Room," Alex Gibney's movie on the Enron collapse--I mean, they were actually phony companies, and people went to jail over it, and so forth.
Bully may be mean to you because of your movie smarts, but ignore them.
Real New Yorkers, a group hard to fool but not hard to flatter, should like how they come across in this small, intimate movie -- smart, attractive, questing, wary but ultimately willing, and hardly a 10th as neurotic as, say, the real New Yorkers in the small, intimate movies of Woody Allen.
Mr. Goyer has kept a few of the ideas that made the first movie so smart.
This terrifically exciting sci-fi movie from smart young British film-maker Gareth Edwards is a case in point.
"Everybody looked at us and said, 'Why are you releasing a movie this smart in the middle of July?' " said Dan Fellman, Warner's president for distribution.
Yet these are great faces, and the movie is smart about a lot of things, including the vital importance of female friendships.
But their new meeting of temperaments, "Paycheck," is surprisingly adept, given that it's basically a dumb movie about smart people.
The movie is smart enough to know that observing characters coming to terms with this is far more interesting than the mystery itself.
And as an instant Hollywood star with her very first movie, "Three Smart Girls," she almost single-handedly fixed the problems of her fretting bosses at Universal, bringing them box-office gold.
