EASTWOOD: Well I think yeah, sometimes you can have
overly dramatic music and I started writing music basically because I saw a lot of... I had a lot of composers come in and work for me and they always wanted to dramatize certain things and take it over the top sometimes and I didn't want it over the top.
And while there are a few compelling sequences here and there - something that's particularly true of the scene in which several characters engage in a
dramatic confrontation while carnival
music plays in the background - the film is generally crushed under the weight of the
overly familiar storyline and unreasonably slow pace.