Cheesy superficialities
plague much of this film, whether it be the comic relief that is frequently flat, or at least
dated, or the dramatics which succumb to glaringly unsubtle histrionics, which take ostensibly accurate
story elements and corrupt their believability through scripted contrivances, the sting of which goes exacerbated by sentimental directorial atmospherics which range from simply unsubtle to pretty cornball.