However, if Beresford gets the little details right, he doesn't know what to do with the overall plot. An obnoxious FBI officer is woven in, with “conspiracy” written all over her pinched forehead, just to play on the tiresome “Big Bad Washington vs the Unassuming Local Police” angle.
There is a de rigeur aside on no one knowing who they are fighting for any more, and that it was best in these times not to have any agenda.
But the biggest surprise is that at the centre of a film whose biggest strength perhaps is that it is not out to prove anything is a little outlandish idea: a conspiracy to crush opposition to stem cell research.
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