Inspired by the wit and ingenuity of Office Space, I ignored the negative reviews and the wife and I plunked down twenty bucks to see this today. Andrea fell asleep midway and she got off better than me. Jasop Bateman tries very hard and Ben Affleck, almost unrecognizable, actually becomes a believeaable character, his best work. And yes, best casting choice Mila Kunis, the criminal drifter, is as convincing as she is beautiful. But the setup, the story and the script go no where and are about nothing. We are to believe that this great boss, poor soul who managed to build a major industrial company would return to the betraying wife who had sex with the pool boy 15 times?! Neither witty nor logical or, sad to say, worth being made. In these truly treacherous times, when brilliant indie films cannot find a taker (at any and every film festival!), that someone with millions said OK holding this dross in his hands is almost as unbelievable as the movie itself.
Extract
(2009)
Great Hard Working Boss with a Bumbling Crew suffers from a cold wife meets up with temptation in the form of a criminal drifter. Ain't funny McGee.
19 September 2009
Warning: Spoilers