134 minute running time … way way way too long and way too convoluted, flashbacks almost never work. I went to fast forward after 30 minutes … third story line involving a black family (Doctor Miles Bennett Dyson the father) which I didn’t get at all, maybe if they had cut that story line out the movie would have worked or at least been bearable … tons of talking, maybe the script looked good on paper but it made for a terrible movie. Oh, it’s a John Sayles movie? No wonder it’s no good. Give it a miss.

Mick LaSalle wrote about another Sayles’ movie: “the stories are bland, the connections are incidental and the dramatic payoff is nonexistent.” I think that’s true for all of them. LaSalle continues: “[Sayles’] ideas are just banal: Things change. Progress is destabilizing. The relentless spirit of free enterprise can sometimes do more harm than good … He needs to say something else.”