The movie isn't bad in its self-imposed strictures. But it doesn't mean that even big movies don't fail to do what they set out to do. For example, no self-respecting studio would put in the poor quality material in such a dirty old dog fight over budget and creative freedom. If nothing else, nobody can deny that today's Hollywood couldn't be any better at cutting corners in terms of talent or creativity. It just wouldn't have made sense for those studios to pay big