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90A drama of extraordinary power and insight with dazzling performances from not only Spacey but also Danny DeVito (who may well be at his best ever) and from newcomer Peter Facinelli.
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88Sharp-edged, perfectly timed, funny and thoughtful.
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80It's a sweet chamber piece, beautifully played.
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80It is an intense study of the human condition, and man's relationship with God, aka the Big Kahuna.
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75Good acting and pungent dialogue.
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75The dialogue is loaded with depth charges that take a while to explode beneath the surface.
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75The most totally appealing and seemingly heartfelt performance of (DeVito's) career.
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70It's smart, funny and insightful and it's quite easy to see what attracted the stars to it.
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63While it's done well enough here - written smartly, staged crisply and acted to the hilt - it doesn't last, except as a brief virtuoso piece for three players.
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63Spacey, whose precise command of enunciation and diction, along with his wicked, reptilian charm, are strong enough to carry the show.
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63The dialogue often sounds like arch Mamet, and John Swanbeck's direction is as spare as the hotel-room decor.
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63A flawed labor of love that's definitely worth a look.
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63Doesn't have the dramatic heft to warrant all its angst and anguish.
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63It's no meal, but it'll tide you over.
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60It doesn't have enough power in the first place to make a strong claim on our attentions.
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60Never feels original, even though it's enjoyable to watch Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito and newcomer Peter Facinelli going at it with snappy patter.
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60The Big Kahuna -- for its superb performances -- wants to be too much, but is about too little, working better as a series of fine monologues than as a cohesive story, the film's makers trapped somewhere between potential and reality, deal unclosed.
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58That The Big Kahuna is hardly more than a sketch or curtain-raiser is not the fault of the play in itself -- it's short-film size, not feature-worthy.
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Peter Facinelli, as Bob, isn't up to verbal sparring with Kevin Spacey just yet.
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50Forgive me for being underwhelmed.
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50It's a chamber piece that probably should have stayed where it started, in regional theater.
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50The movie isn't about anything except acting, and although the acting it shows is brilliant, it makes exactly the point that is the opposite of the point it thought it was making: Acting isn't enough.
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50DeVito's low-key midlife crisis is consistently moving, but Spacey, saddled with the role of provocateur, is demonically boring.
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40Breaks no new ground and is tedious in the extreme.
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40If the movie looked any cheaper, you might think you were paying more to get into the theater than was spent on making the film.
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33A ponderous stage adaptation that expends only the mildest effort to overcome its staginess.
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30Feels more like Barry Levinson's "Tin Men" on Prozac.
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