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Like an overloaded airplane struggling to lift off, the characters in "Pushing Tin'' spring free of the rails, but to exist pulled back down past the plot. John Cusack and Baton Bob Thornton play 2 air-traffic controllers who are prickly and circuitous, who accept hold of a scene and shake it awake and make it live, only to be brought downwards by a simpering series of happy endings.

For at least an hr, there is hope that the moving-picture show will amount to something atypical. It takes the states into a world we haven't seen much of--an air-traffic command center. Controllers peer into their computer screens similar kids playing a video game, barking instructions with such alarming quickness that we wonder how pilots can sympathize them. They use cynicism to protect themselves from the terrors of the job. I guy "has an aluminum shower in his future.'' The movie opens with the laconic observation, "You lot country a million planes safely, and so you accept one little mid-air, and you never hear the stop of it.'' This pic is non going to be shown on airplanes.

Cusack plays Nick Falzone, hotshot controller, on top of his task, happily married to his sweet wife Connie (Cate Blanchett, astonishingly transformed from Elizabeth I into a New Bailiwick of jersey housewife). He works a night shift, ingests a plateful of grease at the local diner, is tired but content. So into his life comes Russell Bell (Baton Bob Thornton), a cowboy controller from out Westward, who gets nether people'southward skins. He rides a pig, needs a shave, schedules planes so shut together that the other controllers agree their breaths. He's married to a twenty-year-old sex activity bomb named Mary (Angelina Jolie), who dresses like a lap dancer.

These four characters are genuinely interesting. Russell is an enigma and likes it that manner. He seldom speaks, has tunnel vision when concentrating on a task, and once stood on a rails to see what the backwash from a 747 felt like. (The controllers watch him doing this, in a video that shows him blown abroad like a rag doll; in real life, paralysis or death would probably effect.) Thornton, who is emerging as the all-time specialist in scene-stealing supporting roles since Robert Duvall, is able to maintain the fascination as long every bit the screenplay maintains Russell'south mystery.

Alas, Hollywood grows restless and unhappy with characters who don't talk much; that's why the typical American screenplay is said to be a tertiary longer than most French screenplays. It's hard to be chatty and nonetheless maintain an air of mystery; the key to Bogart's appeal is in enigmatic understatement. When Russell does start speaking (or "sharing'') with Nick, he turns out, alas, to take the mellow insights of a self-aid tape, and at i betoken actually advises the younger human to learn to "allow become.'' This is not what we want to hear from the same human being who, earlier in the movie, asked if he has whatever hobbies, growls, "I used to basin, when I was an alcoholic.'' The Cusack grapheme is also given a rocky road by the screenwriters (Glen and Les Charles, creators of the striking Television receiver series "Thanks''). He's a happily married man, but when he sees the Angelina Jolie grapheme, he melts. She'south weeping in the supermarket over a cart total of vodka, and he helpfully invites her to a nearby eating house. After predictable consequences, she has a line that would have made her hubby proud ("Mr. Falzone, what'due south the fewest number of words yous can use to get out that door?''), simply instead of following the emotional and sexual consequences to some kind of biting terminate, the flick goes all soft and sentimental.

Cusack does what he does best: incisive intelligence, combined with sincere but sensible emotion. Blanchett, eccentric in "Oscar and Lucinda'' and purple in "Elizabeth,'' is cheery and normal here, chatting almost taking art classes. Jolie's sexuality is like a bronco that keeps throwing her; she's too young and vulnerable to control it. One can imagine a movie that linked these characters in unforgettable ways, and this one seems headed for a showdown before it veers off into platitudes.

At least it spares us an airplane crash. And information technology gives united states a good scene where Nick, onboard a plane, becomes convinced that Russell is steering them through a thunderstorm. (His behavior here should get him handcuffed past the flight crew and arrested by the FBI, but never mind.) The movie also does an observant job of showing united states the atmosphere inside an air traffic control center, where the job description includes "depression, nervous breakdowns, middle attacks and hypertension.'' The movie is worth seeing, for the good stuff. I'm recommending information technology because of the performances and the details in the air-traffic command center. The director is Mike Newell ("Donnie Brasco,'' "Four Weddings and a Funeral''). His gift in making his characters come live is so existent that it actually underlines the weakness of the ending. We believe we know Russell and Nick--know them and then well we tin tell, in the last one-half hour, when they finish being themselves and starting time existence the puppets of a boring studio ending.