He must be a scream at a cocktail party
Seeing the credits Douglas McGrath has, I really wonder how he could
produce (and write and direct and star in) such dreck. It's obviously a vanity project. He's called in friends from every movie he's done--Turturro from Quiz Show, Allen from Bullets, even Cummings from Emma. I have a feeling he's been doing his 'grammar teacher' routine since improv classes and I'm sure his friends found it hysterical. But someone should have had the guts to tell him it wasn't working here--at all. Irritating is funny for five minutes; then it gets, well, irritating!. They forgot the plot.
A waste of time, a waste of an excellent cast, and only because I saw a
free preview, was it not a waste of money. Company Man began with a good premise, but nothing ever developed. The movie was a series of mostly unrelated comedy sketches centering around one joke - a "hero" who was so bland and boring that he was the perfect CIA agent. Characters popped in and out with no explanation, and the director appeared to be more interested in costuming than plot. I laughed through the first half hour and then. quite suddenly, the movie ceased to be amusing. Quite a number of the audience walked out midway through the movie, which is not a testament to quality, especially when we were attending a free preview.. |
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