dogcow

a great subject for a movie, however the film is clearly written by someone who does not know any bankers, and hadn't done much research on the crisis. if only real bankers with this genteel there might not have been any crisis at all. Decent acting job all around but the script fails to deliver on many levels. This wants to be a sequel to wall street but in reality should be closer to a sequel of Glengary Glen Ross because that is the level of ego and desperation of the people the film depicts. There is little difference except the characters were small time hucksters and the characters in this film are big time.

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I love Elmore Leonard I have read just about every novel he has written this is not among my favorites. However some of my favorites (Stick, 52 Pick Up, Rum Punch) have been made into completely terrible films.

This on the other hand is a nice adaptation. Characterizations and dialog doesn't stray much from the original story. Much of it plays out just like it did in my imagination when I read the book. The acting was passable, though I thought Glover (and to a lesser degree Andy Dick) were miscast but they did a decent job. The tone of the movie was light and breezy just like the novel. I would love to see the director take a crack at one of Leonard's better novels like Stick or The Hunted.

This has to be one of the most dull movies about the apocalypse ever. Maybe it is because people had longer attention spans in the 1950s, or maybe it is because it was a lot scarier that it really could have happened then, or maybe its because that the promise of mutually assured destruction DID prevent a nuclear holocaust despite what this movie preaches. But I completely hated this film. Well acted and reasonably well directed, however the pace is so leaden that you will wish for death twenty minutes in. The director gets sidetracked by tons of pointless sub-plots that don't go anywhere. It is also not nearly as chilling as many of the other cold war films of the 1960s. Oh and maybe two or three of the "austrailians" actually have Aussie accents. Oh and after viewing this film, you will never want to hear the song "waltzing matilda" ever again. Its almost as if the director believed its the only thing Americans would know about Australian culture (i guess it was, pre paul hogan anyways).