Artykuł pochodzi z pisma "Guardian"


Peter Bradshaw
Friday March 24, 2006

You could try emptying Lake Victoria with a teaspoon, or making a scale model of Ely Cathedral with marbles, or getting into your house with front-door key made of marzipan. Any of these activities would be less of a waste of time than watching this supremely annoying and nonsensical film from Spike Lee.
Clive Owen is a super-cool villain who robs a Manhattan bank, taking the staff hostage; Denzel Washington is the cop negotiator. The prize would appear to be the contents of a single safety deposit box in the vault. How did Owen know about the box? Why didn't he just skedaddle straight away with the box's contents? How could he hide in the bank without being found or even looked for? All these questions are left unanswered by a film that, like Spike Lee's similarly abysmal 25th Hour, is bombastic and boring and emptily self-important.

negotiator- negocjator
abysmal- okropny, beznadziejny, fatalny
annoying- irytujący, drażniący
appear- wydawać się
bombastic- napuszony, bombastyczny
contents- zawartość
cop- glina, policjant
empty- opróżniać
hostage- zakładnik
marbles- marmur; szklane kulki
nonsensical- nonsensowny
rob- obrabować, okraść
safety deposit box- sejf
self-important- zarozumiały, zadufany
skedaddle- umknąć, zwiać, wymknąć się
staff- personel
supremely- w najwyższym stopniu
teaspoon- łyżeczka do herbaty
vault- skarbiec, krypta
villain- czarny charakter
waste- strata




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