August (2008)

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

How sad is this?

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This is a well-crafted and well-acted psychological drama, telling the story of a dysfunctional family and of a young man who is intelligent enough to become really, really stupid. It is also an astute analysis of a financial system in crisis, mired in some of the most egregiously vapid speculation this side of the Dutch Tulip Craze. In this movie there are bubbles bursting all over the place, from the personal level to the societal.Still, the ending leaves a lot to be desired - it could have been a great deal sharper.There is an area where the movie, for all its qualities, falls down badly and that is the use of rhetoric. (I'm using the term loosely.) The young CEO Tom is supposed to be a supreme salesperson, also a supreme bullsh.tter, capable of swaying even the most recalcitrant business partner or client. In fact the words coming out of his mouth aren't all that convincing ; they're not even all that interesting. It's a pretty safe bet that there are falling- down drunk conversations going on in bars right now which contain more invitation or offer more wit and perception. This becomes very clear in the scene where Tom addresses a reunion as a speaker. The sentences coming out of his mouth are basically badly strung together gobbledygook ; and yet his audience listens raptly, as if Churchill himself was giving one of his most rousing and engaging wartime speeches. Credible it is not.

This movie was a total waist of time. The synopsis made the story sound good, but after the first 5 seconds of watching the movie, I knew this movie was going NO WHERE FAST. I've seen over a thousand movies and this one goes some where at the bottom with Aeon Flux & Glitter. EXAMPLE: 1. The Director must have run out of ideas to Shoot the Film, cause for a total of 25 minutes of the movie they show Josh Hartnett walking around or in bed doing nothing/saying nothing. 2. What the Heck is Land Shark, I'm in the IT field and the stuff still didn't make sense. 3. The purpose of the business of Land Shark is never revealed.I hope I save someone's life, because I lost about an hour and a half a mine.

I just got done with watching this movie and I have to admit it was really pointless. 1/3 of the movie is just business lingo, the other 2/3 is just plain contemplation of Josh Hartnett's slightly above average acting...Big holes in the script. We don't know anything about the characters backgrounds, it feels like Tom is acting like an ass just for the sake of it. Very cliché character: the cocky guy who has tons of money, pisses off everybody and then realizes that there is more in life than dough. We all saw it coming right at the first party scene... Am I the only one who would have liked to know what kind of product their company made? Why is the company sinking? Sept. 11 was mentioned in other reviews, I could not find any link whatsoever...Let's face it, the whole plot was not movie material and even thought it was pretty well shot and the score is interesting I don't think any business or stocks neophytes have any reason to see it since there is absolutely no character exploration.ONE LAST THING: What was the point of putting David Bowie in the trailer, on the DVD's back picture and even write his name on the cover when he actually gets less screen time than 90% of the cast? (even the semi-goth employee gets more screen time...)

Dot com entrepreneur Tom (Josh Hartnett) has it all: attractive girlfriend Sarrah (Naomie Harris), his brother Josh (Adam Scott) and a very lucrative web business.All of it, however, begins to slowly unravel, and Tom does everything he can to stay above it, but his charm and charisma can only get him so far. Soon he's on the receiving end of failure - his girlfriend left him, and his business is crumbling around him.This riches to rags story would've been better if it...well...had a cohesive storyline. His business starts evaporating without really an explanation, and all the dull dialogue and weak performances only heightened the overall dull aspect of this film.