1.   And despite its lurking sentimentality, the movie does its excruciating job.

2.   And so did the movie.

3.   And it points to protectionism to explain why French movies rarely do well in the United States.

4.   And so does this movie.

5.   And the movie does a fine job of capturing their initial shock and desperation and their coming to terms with the prospect that they may never be rescued.

6.   And the movie did that quite effectively.

7.   And the bold, sweeping inventiveness of action sequences, the one thing that American movies consistently do well, has grown over the years.

8.   And when it takes place, the movie does a crispy efficient job of suggesting that the two really have become indistinguishable.

9.   At any rate, the vulnerability becomes him, and so does this movie.