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It's hard to fault filmmaker Aimee Lagos for wanting to follow spiritually in Paul Haggis's footsteps. Aside from our snooty disdain, the man's had a pretty fucking great career. With her feature film debut 96 Minutes, she decided to go with a social commentary mashup of four different cliches weaved together on a carjacking gone wrong. The frustrating part is that the acting and characters are pretty solid, if not molded out of cliches. 
If it wasn't mired in such a stupid goddamn trite plot, it could be probably be a solid movie. She gets more mileage out of her non-linear storytelling than she should be able, and she might have packed a little too many storylines which she abandons later into the story, but what's there is a fucking condescending and stereotypical mess. The buzzword for the weaker films of the festival this year seem to be stereotypical --

 which is something that new filmmakers need to write out of their system. Every cop is racist, every hood character is gangsta, the good people are unquestionably good, the bad people are unquestionably bad, and for such a messy film it's starkly black or white. A little gray might have really benefited the feature. As it stands, it feels like a bad slasher film blended with the Kidz Bop version of Crash.
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