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review: “MIRACLE INVESTIGATORS”
Director: Jeremy Dehn
Running Time: 13 minutes
Genre: Action-Comedy
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Miracle Investigators is the answer to a lack of action in depictions of the Catholic Church. Combining elements of Buddy Cop, Bond and Wire-Fu films, it is the story of two Catholic Priests who, as the title suggests, investigate miracles and arrest those who fake them, charging them with “the right to remain penitent.” The fight scenes between frocked priests and altar boys are well choreographed and the conspiracy theories hearken to the more serious moments of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson’s remake of Starsky and Hutch. However, in its attempts to lampoon and amuse, the short has a tendency to come across more as insulting than funny.
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Reviewed films were randomly selected from the hundreds of entries to the 2009 DC Shorts Film Festival. The reviews are written by Bryan Koenig, an intern with an interest in film review and journalism. The opinions expressed are his own, and not that of the independent judging panel, the DC Shorts Film Festival staff, or the staff and Board of the DC Film Alliance.
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