Near the beginning of the book, Square has a vision of a world called Lineland.

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Square believed this to be a vision of another land, but perhaps it was something else.

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Bay tries to gloss over the infantile plot, but it would take a lighter, wittier touch to square the movie's pedestrian script with its excitable vision of impending auto-geddon.

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