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Misconduct (2016)

February. 05,2016
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5.3
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R
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An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.

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Martin Bradley
2016/02/09

This convoluted so-called 'thriller' is so hard to follow you get the impression they made it up as they went along. It is, however, given something of a lift by the performances of its two Oscar-winning 'guest' stars though, apart from money, what drew either Al Pacino or Anthony Hopkins to this is a mystery. Given the material they have to work with, they are both excellent but the movie is such rubbish you probably won't want to spend too much time with them and certainly no time with anyone else. Dire.

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blanche-2
2016/02/10

I'm embarrassed to say I actually liked this film.Let me say up front, despite some of the reviews here, I had no trouble following it.I also admit I did figure most of it out. This, however, did not keep me from being entertained.I am surprised Pacino and Hopkins signed on for this as neither role is especially great.Someone, somewhere, greenlit this thing and gave it a decent budget, even though it's a first-time director (Shintaro Shimosawa).The story concerns am ambitious young man, Ben Cahill (Josh Duhamel) who goes after fraud perpetrated by a pharmaceutical company owned by Arthur Denning (Anthony Hopkins). Cahill has been cutting corners to make his cases all along; this one is no different, as he obtained the information illegally from an old girlfriend (Malin Akerman). Ben's boss (Al Pacino) gives him the go-ahead to pursue it.Things unravel pretty quickly, as Ben is threatened not only with danger to himself but his wife (Alice Eve); he finds his ex- girlfriend dead and goes on the run.Okay, I happen to think this was an excellent plot clumsily handled by this director, who maybe should have started with something simpler. This is a very complex story to put across, and while some of the camera angles are interesting and I would say this man has talent, it wasn't put together quite right. He tried for a Pulp Fiction thing that didn't quite come off, for one thing; and for another it's just too all over the place.Another problem is that every suspense or mystery movie nowadays has to end with a twist since Usual Suspects. Well, now the twists are expected and passe, so what writers are doing now are putting twists within the twists. It's too much. The acting was okay, but the husband-wife thing between Alice Eve and Duhamel was sketchy and not fleshed out. Not sure who to blame there.Nevertheless, this was a good rental - not sure how I would have felt with these big names attached if I had paid $12 in the theater.

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caf-19
2016/02/11

Causing my fellow viewer and I to have misapprehension about the capability of 'New' Hollywood to ever produce a real, captivating, exciting, follow-able suspense/murder mystery again since Michael Douglas was being stalked by bunny-boiling broads.(1987, Fatal Attraction)I won't bore anyone with a verbose explanation of the many ways this movie didn't make the mark, or even throw in a lecture about the regrettable waste of good actors such as Anthony Hopkins or Al Pacino. I will keep this short by summing up the comment of my blue-collar fellow Misconduct watcher as soon as the movie ended: "I didn't get it, did you get it? I didn't get any part of that movie...None of it made sense! Ya know what? Those kids in Hollywood doing the writing and directing and producing these days?....they're too stupid to know how to do a good movie" And there is the sad truth.Hollywood: The gauntlet has been thrown down. Do ANY of you have the talent, guts, or skill to do something about it?

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adonis98-743-186503
2016/02/12

When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption. Misconduct is not as bad as you might think but it's pretty terrible and mediocre with an acting that is simply over the whole place and with 2 giants of cinema playing 2 small roles when you hear the name Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins you should except a masterpiece unfortunately this is a film about some crazy chick that put everyone's lives on risk and with dialogue that shows how dumb the film really is at least is better than Righteous Kill tho as for Byung-hun Lee his role is bigger than last year's Terminator Genisys and if you loved that film or not his acting skills were pretty great in that film in here he coughs blood and has cancer a Hit-man that has cancer? who thought of that honestly? Every time that Hopkins and Pacino are on screen the film gets a little bit good the rest of it? Not so much i would also like to spoil something from the films first of all the whole movie is edited in a weird way, Al Pacino takes the gun from a police officer and kills himself and Malin Akerman is having a relationship with Anthony Hopkins and in the end as it turns out Alice Eve was the person that killed her i will give it a 6 out of 10 because it was pretty mediocre.

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