A great film for film students to watch as it's been said one can learn the most from the most bungled projects. The endless use of trite symbolism, pointless bits of plot, total lack of character development make this a mess based on someone's unedited, overloaded psyche.
What might suck you in as it did me, is that Langella and Gould are fine actors and always interesting to look at. As you get further into the movie you may find yourself watching to see if the write's/directors can top themselves with corny, sentimental symbols and pseudo-deep meaning gobbledegook.
Wow, one of the thugs is watching a movie on TV about blood and horror. How many times have we seen that f trope? Wow, one of the main characters likes children....what a heckuva guy! Wow, someone feels guilty for helping a corporation kill innocents in pursuit of profit (when does that ever happen in real life?). Elliot Gould and Frank Langella have cut their credibility in half with me (though everyone should see him as Nixon) for taking whatever money they took to star in this thoroughly inept, amateurish tangle.
What might suck you in as it did me, is that Langella and Gould are fine actors and always interesting to look at. As you get further into the movie you may find yourself watching to see if the write's/directors can top themselves with corny, sentimental symbols and pseudo-deep meaning gobbledegook.
Wow, one of the thugs is watching a movie on TV about blood and horror. How many times have we seen that f trope? Wow, one of the main characters likes children....what a heckuva guy! Wow, someone feels guilty for helping a corporation kill innocents in pursuit of profit (when does that ever happen in real life?). Elliot Gould and Frank Langella have cut their credibility in half with me (though everyone should see him as Nixon) for taking whatever money they took to star in this thoroughly inept, amateurish tangle.