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B |
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| Story: |
A |
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| Acting: |
C |
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| Direction: |
D |
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B |
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Read the other reviews first, then this one
by teraflop (movies profile)
Sep 19, 2005
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Love the story and how its story crept up, love the pacing (of the story) and how it fell together in the end. It's very timely too, last year I thought that $75/bbl for oil would be the max we could expect. Now it's August 2005 and I'm thinking, just one more push somewhere in the world and we're in the $70s. But I digress. Hence my point: the movie is extremely timely from an oil standpoint and from a scandal & investigation standpoint but the power is not there. As exec producer, I think Christian did a great job. Casting was fine (except maybe they thought they could direct the non-acting actors). Control was tight, despite (to some) the difficult subject matter. But it's no Wall Street (well, I think alot of Wall Street was lame too), no evidence that Tom Hanson's firm (the hero) is an I-Bank. There should be people working late nights with sharp elbows at all turns (Ok, there's one), instead it looks like some 9-5 sales office. When working for I-Bank execs, they're the ones pushing for facts or digging them out themselves, none of this ivory-tower Q&A: "is this the best thing for the shareholder?"
What could have fixed this? Who am I, a casting director? A different director? Nope, some schmuck with a real job. What did I not like? Well, I shared some of my feeling. Overall, worth seeing. Christian just needs to work with better people, I like him too much (as an actor) and think he can do better. |
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