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“The snappily edited sequences of battle and mock battle sweep us in and out of the cockpit,” Walter Goodman wrote in his review for The New York Times.

Shot like a commercial — brightly lit, colorful, shallowly staged, and snappily edited — you half expect Cary Elwes to turn to camera and start talking about credit card rewards.

He has a knack too for developing distinctive and varied characters who mesh well together in snappily written and staged scenes.

By comparison, the snappily dressed kids in group shots typically arrange themselves in poses, crouching with their arms upraised or wingspread like the Jackson 5 or folded on their chests B-boy style.

It is hard to see the system’s successor — the snappily titled financial sustainability regulations — being any more effective.