Wordiezett So much average

Salubfoto It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

Deanna There are moments in this movie where the great movie it could've been peek out... They're fleeting, here, but they're worth savoring, and they happen often enough to make it worth your while.

Kimball Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

wes-connors "Director/Writer Mitch Rouse brings you an outrageous dark comedy reminiscent of the Coen Brothers," according to the Lions Gate synopsis scribers, "When David Walsh (Matt Dillon) wakes up, his life is the picture of perfection: a beautiful fiancée, Sarah (Christina Applegate), and a dream job as a manager of a bank - even his best friend Jack (Steve Zahn), an incompetent con artist, can't bring him down. That is, until his entire life dissolves into chaos. Nothing can prepare him for the twists and turns his day takes when a bank robbery and millions of dollars become part of the day from hell." The description is about as fair as it could be, but the film isn't. If you dare to watch, you will see more twists than Chubby Checker. There are enough twists during the last act to leave your head spinning for several minutes after the film, which includes a hiccuping false-footage ending. Any story's best revelations are things that bubble under your subconscious, but don't totally emerge until that moment resembling epiphany. "Employee of the Month" features a bizarre series of twists that make no sense in context; they are just thrown at the screen, causing gaping plot holes along the way.The opening should have been presented in "smell-o-vision" to give you an idea about how much some unmentionable, but frequently mentioned, stuff stinks; neither Mr. Dillon nor the Los Angeles bus passengers indicate the foul smell alluded to in the narration. Now, in reality, someone would react, and move to another seat. As Dillon's potty-mouthed coroner sidekick, Mr. Zahn performs some glassy-eyed "gag reel" material that somehow made it to the finished movie. At least, the women are sexy - watch for Zahn's topless lap dancer, and Dillon's aroused "Office" prostitute Jenna Fischer.*** Employee of the Month (1/17/04) Mitch Rouse ~ Matt Dillon, Steve Zahn, Christina Applegate, Andrea Bendewald

metallipowerman5000 I borrowed the movie from a buddy at work. He kept telling me the movie was "alright"So i figured, what the hell.Wow, what i great movie. It's got kind of a satisfying feeling about it when the ending gets close. But it's basically about how someone who has been working hard at their job for years, suddenly gets fired, and now he's sort of out for revenge. But has a twist of Karma thrown in the mix too....and has a lesson to be learned. (obviously as the movie description states)But it's got that revenge kind of "feel" to it, just like "Office Space". But this movie isn't as soft and funny. It's a little cruel but STILL VERY FUNNY at the same time. Kind of a weird mixture of the two.And it does have a few sex scenes or sexually explicit stuff.It seems like these kinds of movies are always swept under the rug when they first come out....just because they involve "sensitive issues", like Workplace Violence and things like that.....But it IS a good movie, regardless.

Catalist127 This movie was a very good effort. Matt Dillon plays David, the bank employee coming up on his two year review expecting a bonus and paid benefits but is fired instead. Things start really head south for him after that. He endures a day that continually gets worse from there culminating is a ten minute ending where there is surprise after surprise strung together.Steve Zahn as Jack is simply outstanding and Dave Foley delivers an underrated effort. In particular, the exchanges between these two are priceless.Jay Leggetts' character Dorff was both odd and hysterical and his interaction with Jack was very good.A special shout out to Jenna Fischer as the hooker Misty whose exchange with Matt Dillon in the hotel room still has me laughing. Otherwise, the efforts on the part of the female leads was lacking.All in all this movie is in my list of "drop everything" when it is on to watch. At the end of the day there are a couple subtleties that have me curious regarding David. He does a couple things in the movie that left me wondering if he was trying to do the right thing or mess with someone else?

higgsa_ps Seems like a pretty innocent choice at first- the name "employee of the month" might ring bells with "Office Space," and the show "Office Clerk." I think not. This isn't even a dark comedy. The director of this movie, whoever the guy's name, was a complete jerk, and has a sick, perverse mind. There is no pleasure in being lured into feeling sorry for a complete loser who cheats on his wife, steals from his top-notch job, and lies through his teeth 24/7. The second I walk in to the room when my family are watching it (and believe me, they were only watching it more because they were praying that there would be at least some relief, perhaps even some fable in the end, sending a warm message of good justice done and when the good guys look good). All the good guys were killed so long ago that they had no time to look good. No memorial was made.This movie has borderline insanity. It disrespects the elderly, the dead and women- and the director tries to make people to like it.I gave this movie a two only because the soundtrack was good. But not even that was all that memorable. If you were lucky enough to not see this in theaters, definitaly my friends- do not do this at home.