A major disappointment
THE most disappointing Mamet movie I have seen so far---and I have seen more than a dozen. Mamet lost his mojo 2/3 into the movie, and it's the surprisingly cliched and sloppy last 1/3 that defines this film. The feel-good ending is, even by Hollywood standard, is implausible and cheap to the extreme. The low-rent, Karate-Kid-style male fantasy here is juvenile and sickening. Mamet the Magician here put the lie to Mamet the Realist.
The real 'suspense' of the film is: why did Mamet do it? Has he got an early onslaught of dementia? Male PMS? Or was he broke way ahead of us in the recent financial crisis?
The real 'suspense' of the film is: why did Mamet do it? Has he got an early onslaught of dementia? Male PMS? Or was he broke way ahead of us in the recent financial crisis?
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