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Fri 09 Sep 2008REDBELT
THE PROSPECT of David Mamet making a martial arts movie may have seemed as unlikely as a James Ivory picture populated by rap singers and drug dealers, or Quentin Tarantino directing an Umberto Eco adaptation.
Then again, Mamet's movies have been preoccupied with the games people play, although they are usually mind games devised for elaborate confidence tricks.
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