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90Razor sharp and funny as hell, Incident at Loch Ness is the harpoon hurled into the hot-air balloon of “reality” entertainment.
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In its final scenes, when truth and superstition collide, the film becomes more preposterous than anything Penn may have contrived earlier.
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80Turns out to be surprisingly layered.
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75Watching the movie is an entertaining exercise in forensic viewing, and the insidious thing is, even if it is a con, who is the conner and who is the connee?
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75Can be taken as a parable about cinema art vs. commerce. If that's too much to think about, just enjoy the off-beat humor.
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A giddy mockumentary.
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75Once the cat is out of the bag, "Incident" becomes simultaneously entertaining and disappointing.
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75In addition to being a funny movie about the movie business, it's a cheeky, ingenious motion picture puzzle.
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70Something of a gigantic goof, perpetrated by Penn and Herzog -- and the goofees included much of the entertainment media, people in the film business, the Scottish authorities and (I think) even some of the film's cast.
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70An amusing mock documentary that spends considerable energy artfully trying to make you believe it's real as real can be. The movie is transparently a fake, but its counterfeit nature is the heart of its charm.
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70Constructed Chinese-box style as a series of films within films, with a faked one about the Loch Ness monster at the center, "Incident" will have maximum impact for the first auds to catch it before its sly central joke gets out.
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60Incident at Loch Ness manages to cross "Project Greenlight" with "The Blair Witch Project" in a way that makes one pine for the originals.
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60It's actually a clever commentary on documentary filmmaking, an pretty good monster movie to boot.
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58Incident at Loch Ness, unfortunately, is a riddle wrapped in a hoax stuffed inside a crock.
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50Starts cleverly but becomes more preposterous as it goes along.
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50Herzog, who deadpans his way through the high jinks, is the best thing about the movie, but even he gets wearisome before Nessie has sunk the boat.
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A successful hoax is annoying for everyone except the hoaxster. No one enjoys being the credulous, unsuspecting dupe of a wise---joke -- personally I loathe it.
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50Incident is too reverent for its own good. It could use a big blast of Herzog-like madness, but it sticks to the conventional show-business satire's arsenal of clichés.
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50The film slowly sheds its convincing identity as nonfiction and becomes a cruel parody of making-of docs, studio-movie pandering, and showbiz egomania.
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50These blatantly comic characters undercut the credibility established by Mr. Herzog's naturalistic performance, and sink the horror premise as quickly as it surfaces.
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