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  1. RaoulD.
    Jul 8, 2005
    9
    Excepting, maybe, only Sandra Oh's character, this movie is bereft of sympathetic characters. I enjoyed a perverse satisfaction in watching this movie. If you've ever worked in a corporation, but didn't really want to, there are many things in this movie that will look familiar. The characters are trapped in their lives and utterly clueless about how to change them. Finding themselves backed into corners, they resort to primal impulses to express themselves. This movie presents the corporate world as hell and money worship as the new idolatry. I'm unfamiliar with "Rigaletto", so I can't make any comparisons there. All I can say is that I've seen men whose souls have been replaced with money and worked with people who look at employees less as individuals than as parts of a machine that produces wealth and power. (I even worked at a company that held a big corporate Rah-Rah event that used mountain climbing as a theme for coprorate unity and success. No kidding.) Everything becomes a great, big pissing contest. People communicate with artificial congeniality and words that they assume others want to hear so that they sound like they're in the loop and thinking outside the box. Is it conceivable that a business man would sacrifice thousands of people's lives and spend a few years in prison to collect $43,000 a month for life guaranteed? Ask Ken and Linda Lay. Soon, all corporations will merge into one blind idiot god of commerce--the cyclopian corridors of the Azathoth Corporation will echo with a fluted Muzak version of "The Girl from Ipanema".… Expand
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52 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 13 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 13
  2. Mixed: 8 out of 13
  3. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Film Threat
    Reviewed by: Merle Bertrand
    80
    Haunting and chilling, yet biting black tragi-comedy.
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  2. Variety
    Reviewed by: Todd McCarthy
    30
    A noxious little tale of Wall Street types whose amorality knows no limit, Rick takes smarmy knowingness to ludicrous extremes.
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  3. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Jorge Morales
    50
    Rick (Bill Pullman) is an embittered cad who fails to earn the audience's sympathy, so the film falls short of its source's tragic dimensions. That aside, Daniel Handler's script and Curtiss Clayton's direction hit all the right notes, especially in the final act.
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