But in the key sequences, pitting our man Pitt (playing a vaguely defined United Nations investigator/world saver) against some superfast and rabidly hungry swarms of unhumanity, the stakes are high and the excitement's there and the results, as previously stated, are messy but fairly entertaining.
In fact, Indonesia, the world's fourth most populated country, is the prime example of a new kind of state: the "messy state".
Now we have authoritarian states (North Korea, Iraq), democratic states (America, France), democratizing states (Poland, Chile, Hungary), failed states (Sierra Leone, Liberia) and messy states -- namely Russia and Indonesia.
In a message of congratulation to Karzai, President Barack Obama made reference to the need for reform and an end to the corruption that is endemic in the Karzai regime but then stated, "Although the process was messy, I am pleased to say that the final outcome was determined in accordance with Afghan law, which I think is very important".
With a populist touch, he ran for governor as a reform candidate promising to clean up the state's messy politics and to change the mood after the previous governor, George Ryan, a Republican, was sentenced to six and a half years in federal prison for racketeering and fraud.
The official report also stated that "Equipment and materials inside the workshop were messy, the work space was narrow, and safety passages did not meet requirements".
1UP.com's review, written two weeks after the game's release, stated "But the sad truth is that NWN2 shipped in a pretty messy state, and even after a couple patches (as of this writing), the biggest problems remain".
But the legal battle — court by court, state by state — has been messy, slow and expensive.
Take a tip from a messy contemplative emphatically stating: Even bad meditation can transform your life.
With no budget agreed and with the state facing fiscal oblivion, a lone state senator was able in effect to request a rewriting of the state constitution.All rather messy, but this is how California works.
