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'Redbelt'

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It sounds like a great idea: David Mamet, the playwright famous for brutal dialogue ("Glengarry Glen Ross") and fiendish plot twists ("House of Games"), brings his formidable brain to the usually brainless genre of martial-arts action flicks. All the usual Mametian ingredients are here - con-men, magic tricks, the cauliflower-nosed actor Ricky Jay - but there's also the promise of the visual excitement...

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