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Shelley, citing what he said was video footage filmed by a witness, said the encounter had “happened very quickly and hectically.”

Neither was slow, exactly, but they nevertheless felt a bit tired and hectically blurred, with hiccups in the horns and trumpets at the end of a long season.

The transformation of these characters is given short shrift by the hectically layered book, but their truncated scenes of inner growth are a reminder of where the beating heart of this tale resides.

But with its jumble of clichés, its blatant word-bubble declarations, and its hectically rushed impracticalities, the movie—which is based on a comic-book series—invites an air of antic exaggeration and revved-up stylization.

Graves adds a desperately needed dash of bravura in an otherwise rather hectically staged “I Am Easily Assimilated.”