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This mini-series is about a deaf girl who witnesses a police murder and then has to run for her life. The girl is played by Genivieve Barr, who is described as deaf altho not accustomed to Sign Language. In the story she manages by lip reading. And such ridiculous lip reading!

She can lip read from people who have turned their backs to her, from people who are behind her, from people in the dark. And the people who supposedly know her do stupid things like raising their voices at her. And the movie depends on stuff being communicated to her in these impossible ways, which was so off-putting that I feel the whole effect was spoiled.

Ms. Barr supposedly knew better than this, so howcome this movie didn't show authentic deafness?

Before his downfall, prison sentence and divorce from Tammy Faye, Jim Bakker's PTL CLUB would promote the idea of God's unconditional love. Every show (and other appearances) Jim would sign-off with "God loves you. He really does."

But hard times evidently beat that loving spirit out of Bakker. In his current program, with second wife Lori, he preaches a God who wants to punish the audience. Now Bakker preaches of a God who plans to smite the audience with a prolonged Tribulation. And the only assurance they might survive is to buy his brand of bomb shelter food; unappealing mush that even the homeless might reject.

If you are addicted to those James Bond-type thrillers, the kind that make you wonder "How will they top this in the next movie?", and keep in mind that the next Daniel Craig outing is a full 15 months away, then THE Hit-man'S BODYGUARD should tide you over.

Michael Bryce (Ryan Renolds) was the gold standard in elite bodyguards to controversial celebrities - until a Japanese weapons merchant in his care was offed by a sniper. Since then his clientele has dwindled to moneyed, paranoid, possibly coked-up, riff-raff. And then Bryce gets a call from his ex-fiancé, Amelia Roussel (Elodie Yung), an Interpol security officer. She was part of an Interpol escort to get a crucial prosecution witness from one side of Amsterdam to the other, 'The Hit-man' Darius Kincaid (Samuel L. Jackson), to testify at the Hague against war criminal Dukhovich (Gary Oldman) - but an entire street in Amsterdam opened up and machinegunned everyone in this caravan except Amelia and the Hit-man, and now Bryce is being asked to finish running this gantlet.

This is sort of a high-tech upgrade of the Bruce Willis movie, 16 Blocks, or Clint Eastwood's The Gauntlet, or Stallone's Cobra. This time with the latest weaponry and computers, and Interpol and Amsterdam. No nudity, but Marine drill sergeants might learn new words.