sentences:  Similarly, the "Los Angeles Times" admired the scenery, but found the plot "too long" and felt it "bogs down" in "a maze of detail"; scholar Dan Auiler says that this review "sounded the tone that most popular critics would take with the film".However, the "Los Angeles Examiner" loved it, admiring the "excitement, action, romance, glamor and [the] crazy, off-beat love story".