The kitsch element is still there -- basically, this is the story of what it's like to be turned into a kill-or-be-killed videogame icon -- but the director, Joseph Kosinski, stages the extreme fighting with a fleet and threatening charge.

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The lawyers took over that fight, too, waging it inside an extreme-fighting cage known as the Fourth Amendment, with its now-famous exclusionary rule for police searches.

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