The only problem is the police show up a little too late.

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Toward the end, Coppola does indeed show Versailles under siege, but the onslaught is far too paltry, and too late, to hold any terrors.

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However, critics have dismissed it as being too vague and it has become the butt of late-night talk show jokes.

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In 2009, too late to prevent the financial bubble which had been facilitated by lax regulation, the watchdog abruptly began to show its fangs.

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