But there is just a chance that conventional wisdom may be wrong, particularly over timing.

ECONOMIST: The ground-war scenario

It's just a theory, of course, but the sign of a worthy thriller may be how eagerly you want to revisit it, just to see where you went wrong or where the movie did, in timing its narrative twists and "aha!"

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