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The Secretary<\/a><\/strong> (1995) – Director: Andrew Lane<\/em> – 3\/10 (very mediocre\/bad)
Well , there are movies about psychotic dentists and cops, why not psycho secretaries, I guess? The basic idea might not be necessarily all that bad in and of itself, nonetheless, the terrible rendition and very poor writing choices completely come to obfuscate whatever good or refreshing there might have been about the whole concept in the first place. Not only is the screenplay utterly riddled with crass clich\u00e9es, but also the direction unequivocally fails to inject any kind of tension or oomph into the tale. The substandard, stagnant narration makes the work irrevocably somnolent and listless, whereas the leading actress playing the role of \u2018da secretary\u2019 is completely miscast and does not fit her part at all with her shrill, mousy voice coming to typify what is wrong about the whole endeavor to begin with, all of which consigns the movie to utter oblivion. While the premise itself might not be all that solid to begin with, what is infinitely worse is film’s execution and so is the soporific storyline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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