Movies are Generally Rated in Context.
The Totality of the Talent, Budget, and Overall Resources Available to the Film-Makers.
Comparative Grouping with its Peers.
This is One of those that had at its Beckoning Call a Major Team of A-List Talent.
Superior Financing, and a Dream-Team of Hollywood Royalty.
So What Went Wrong?
The Movie Plays Like All Involved were Wearing Blinders.
Oblivious to Concerns About the Things that Make Movies Click.
The Director, Sidney Lumet has a Stellar Filmography,.
But His Helming on this Embarrassing Entry is, well, Embarrassing.
Attempting to Shine a Light on a Dark Profession that Manipulates, Slings Half-Truths, and Falsehoods.
Using the Tricks of the Trade to Sell Soul-Less, Empty Entities to the Masses, is Woefully Inept.
It All Began and was Laid Out in the 1920's
With Edward Bernays Little Bible for the Elite to Control the Minds of Men Titled "Propaganda".
The Term a Non-Pejorative Before the Nazis.
It is a Masterpiece of Public Relations and Advertising Techniques.
That Created the Template for Madison Avenue and Beyond.
Bernays Outline is Still Used Today.
This Movie is the Opposite of a Masterpiece.
It is a Monumental Mess on Every Level.
Actors Over-Act...The Script is Boring as Hell.
Every Aspect of Technology and Techniques of the Trade are Hopelessly Dated.
While Trying So-Hard to be Cutting-Edge.
The Tape Reels Spinning, the TV Screens, the Wires, etc. Border on a Fetish.
Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, and Richard Gere Give Perhaps the Worst Performances of Their Careers.
Nothing On-Screen Works and Nothing Rings True.
The Totality of the Talent, Budget, and Overall Resources Available to the Film-Makers.
Comparative Grouping with its Peers.
This is One of those that had at its Beckoning Call a Major Team of A-List Talent.
Superior Financing, and a Dream-Team of Hollywood Royalty.
So What Went Wrong?
The Movie Plays Like All Involved were Wearing Blinders.
Oblivious to Concerns About the Things that Make Movies Click.
The Director, Sidney Lumet has a Stellar Filmography,.
But His Helming on this Embarrassing Entry is, well, Embarrassing.
Attempting to Shine a Light on a Dark Profession that Manipulates, Slings Half-Truths, and Falsehoods.
Using the Tricks of the Trade to Sell Soul-Less, Empty Entities to the Masses, is Woefully Inept.
It All Began and was Laid Out in the 1920's
With Edward Bernays Little Bible for the Elite to Control the Minds of Men Titled "Propaganda".
The Term a Non-Pejorative Before the Nazis.
It is a Masterpiece of Public Relations and Advertising Techniques.
That Created the Template for Madison Avenue and Beyond.
Bernays Outline is Still Used Today.
This Movie is the Opposite of a Masterpiece.
It is a Monumental Mess on Every Level.
Actors Over-Act...The Script is Boring as Hell.
Every Aspect of Technology and Techniques of the Trade are Hopelessly Dated.
While Trying So-Hard to be Cutting-Edge.
The Tape Reels Spinning, the TV Screens, the Wires, etc. Border on a Fetish.
Gene Hackman, Denzel Washington, and Richard Gere Give Perhaps the Worst Performances of Their Careers.
Nothing On-Screen Works and Nothing Rings True.