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100Think of this witty, economically gory little tour de force as "28 Days Later" written by linguist Noam Chomsky.
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83Primarily though, the film works as a tour de force for McHattie--a veteran character actor making the most of his character's long, fluid monologues--and as a sly commentary on journalistic responsibility.
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63Between its ridiculous setup and its hard-to-care-about ending, McDonald still manages to craft an engaging suspense film that -- when you're not scratching your head in puzzlement -- will have you on the edge of your seat.
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60A horror flick that's all talk and (almost) no action? The risk pays off better than you'd think.
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50The premise has potential, but there's no follow- through. And there's no actual zombie mayhem; we learn everything secondhand -- from phone calls to the station.
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50Pontypool doesn't jell--its pretensions way exceed its reach--yet it's madly suggestive, and it rekindled my affection for the genre.
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50A small Canadian horror film that makes the most of its minuscule budget.
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40Pontypool is something like a claustrophobic, locked-in-the-barn zombie movie, only almost without zombies.
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40For a film about the perils of too much talk, there's quite a lot of babbling presented as profundity. The political statements in Pontypool, much like those in another recent Canadian offering, Atom Egoyan's trite terrorism hand-wringer "Adoration," seem all the less provocative for appearing several years too late--McDonald's film might have had more punch if it were released when Bluetooth first rolled out.
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40A zombie flick sans bite.
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