ThiefHott Too much of everything

Listonixio Fresh and Exciting

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Marva It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

chaos-rampant This is a film in the theatric vein of Glengarry Glen Ross and other David Mamet. Three salesmen, two older ones and the greenhorn protégé, are in a hotel room in Witchita to make an important pitch on lubricants. The film is almost entirely confined to the room, played over the course of a day and night.Liking it means you're going to be able to find Spacey's ironic patter to be more than empty flourish, the greenhorn not to be unbelievable and annoying as a character (a religious idealist in sales must be like finding a puritan call-girl), while preferably getting something out of the philosophical discussion pitched to us as deep. None of which was true for me, so I pass.DeVito is the sole reason to watch this if you want glimmers of truth and not mere cleverness. He shows what a great actor he can be, look how he plays to the air around him.His parting speech is beautiful of course. The realization is important in itself: honesty, empathy, regret, as openness and growth. Yet even here something feels off. Maybe it's the particular constraints imposed by this theatric format, maybe it's the manipulable artificiality inherent in a speech, but even this powerful moment, especially this, feels only like a sales pitch to an audience.

Boba_Fett1138 So what was Kevin Spacey thinking? Seems to me he was hoping for a successful re-has of "Glengarry Glen Ross". the end result however really isn't as good, due to its very uninteresting writing.Problem with this movie is really its story. It's just not interesting enough. This movie would had been a great one if it actually was about something. The movie doesn't have some life lessons in it and the movie and its story are more aimed toward the characters and actors portraying them The movie also isn't really a character movie though. For that we just never got to know the characters good enough. The movie remains with its characters and emotions pretty much on the surface.It's a movie that got made in a very stagy way. It's also based on a play in fact and it features the type of dialog and slow progressing story you could expect from it. It's also a movie that gets set at mostly one location. Normally I'm never a too big fan of this but there are some successful movies who use this approach as well, as for instance the earlier mentioned "Glengarry Glen Ross" but also the John Huston classic "Key Largo" and the Dutch movie example "Cloaca".Nevertheless it's a movie that becomes good to watching thanks to its acting. Danny DeVito is really good but truly great is Kevin Spacey, though his character in the movie is still the least well developed one. We never fully get to understand his character and he seems to have many different faces, which also doesn't particularly makes his character a likable one.It's a movie that I enjoyed watching, mostly thanks to its acting but it's not one I really liked very much though. Only really recommendable to the true fans of Kevin Spacey or Danny DeVito.6/10http://bobafett1138.blogspot.com/

Elswet It is a shame when brilliant performances are wasted on a piece of crap screen play, as is the case with The Great Kahuna. Kevin Spacey and Danny DiVitto are wonderful actors, and nothing here says any different. They both contribute the kinds of quality performances we have come to admire and expect from them.The screenplay, however, deserved none of their labors. It is preachy, and proselytizing tripe, which has no business on any theater screen, much less MY television set. The "story" centers around a deluded rose-colored-glasses kid who still has his head in the clouds and doesn't realize that religion and business do NOT mix. Instead of doing his job, he openly proselytizes with the clients, and then rebels against the disparaging opinions of his betters, when they discover what he has been up to.I was neither amused, nor entertained, though DiVitto and Spacey turned in beautiful performances.It rates a 3.9/10 from...the Fiend :.

ezlidblue-1 I don't get this looking for hidden meanings, etc. in the movies these days. How on earth do you ever enjoy a movie if you're constantly hyperventilating over what this or that "means?" Existentialism just isn't meant to be practiced when you're out to simply escape and enjoy a movie. This is definitely not rocket science! I happened on this movie on a Sunday afternoon and really liked the performances of Spacey and DeVito (can't recall NOT enjoying any performances by either of these two!). The writer(s) actually gave them something to say and it was worth listening to, particularly the last fifteen minutes. A little "foor for thought" doesn't hurt anyone if given in small doses and just now and then. This movie provides just that. I was struck by the relevancy of what was said to today's headlines, particularly the comments made by DeVito's character re conversations trying to convince people of Godly points of view being ad men's pitches. Amen!