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By Robert Sims, Special to Hollywood.com | Wednesday, June 18, 2008

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1. Edison Force
The Big Losers: Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman, Justin Timberlake, LL Cool J
Deservedly Dumped?: Fine, you’re forgiven if you bought J.Lo as a journalist in Bordertown. But shame on you if you believe Mr. SexyBack as a newshound out to expose a group of dirty cops led by Dylan McDermott. Timberlake isn’t just inert to the point that he makes Mariah Carey look like Kate Winslet—he’s visibly intimidated whenever he shares scenes with Freeman and Spacey. Not that the two Oscar winners—the former’s Timberlake’s boss, the latter’s an investigator—do anything to save this hackneyed tale of power corrupted from being an out-and-out embarrassment. Freeman’s far from his usually graceful self, while Kevin Spacey’s in full chew-the-scenery mode. Worse, the dialogue is as unintentionally funny as Spacey’s puffed-up hair. Sadly, Edison Force hasn’t dissuaded Timberlake from acting again. No wondering we’re crying him a river.
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