It may be one of the casualties of the auteur theory and the general solemnization of directors that some of the most talented people now just start shooting a script as if big ideas and directorial vision were enough to hold a movie together.

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Soon, unwittingly, they're trading fire with real life bad guys -- thus the true meaning of shooting without a script.

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