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May Contain Spoilers  Here I am at Sundance 2006. Four years ago
I sat in the Park City Library and saw a film named "Better Luck
Tomorrow" by a young man named Justin Lin, and I joined in the
cheers. This was a risky, original film by a brilliant new
director, who told the story of a group of Asian kids from
affluent families in Orange County, who backed into a life of
crime with their eyes wide open.  Now it is Sundance again, but
I must pause to review "Annapolis," which is opening in the
nation's multiplexes. Let the young directors at Sundance 2006
set aside their glowing reviews and gaze with sad eyes upon this
movie, for it is a cautionary lesson. It is the anti-Sundance
film, an exhausted wheeze o