The Killer Inside Me may well be a fine, four-stars thriller, but it seems to me to be one scene of abysmally graphic cruelty with 85 minutes of run-of-the-mill plot wrapped around it.
Start reading King Leir, written a few years before King Lear and you will instantly recognise the plot and the characters but Shakespeare turned a run-of-the mill play into an enduring masterpiece.
They weren't your run-of-the mill flags, either.
Just your run-of-the mill Moravian village, then – but Kvitova is no run-of-the-mill tennis player.
If all that sounds like a plot from a run-of-the-mill British TV detective series with a female protagonist (Lynda La Plante's Prime Suspect perhaps), then that is unfortunately what all too much of the opera seems to be, with the rather leaden text sung rather than spoken, and Muhly's music provdiing the tasteful backdrop.
The revolution that Chekhov set in train - and which reverberates still today - was not to abandon plot, but to make the plot of his stories like the plot of our lives: random, mysterious, run-of-the-mill, abrupt, chaotic, fiercely cruel, meaningless.
Between health care showdowns, wars, terror plots, and your run-of-the-mill Washington sex scandals, the Census is really easy to ignore.
Did you think "Skyfall" was just another run-of-the-mill movie about a sleazy spy with a big torso and small head, riddled with plot holes and dumb distractions?
Others were run-of-the-mill.
"My dreams are run-of-the-mill".
The morning seemed like a run-of-the-mill weekday.
