In the same way post-modernist architecture, with its pastiches of historic features, seems merely playful in a kind of soulless way, so too do most of our new cars seem oddly flat and without character.

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The character stuff is so light on its feet that the action scenes seem flat in comparison -- the effects are first-rate, but they're nothing we haven't seen before, and the climactic showdown is a bit heavy-handed (if satisfyingly crunchy).

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