Gil Bellows plays a "genius" whose importance to his company is critical, and he is pursued by a headhunter. The headhunter is nuts. So far so good.
His boss, to whom his loyalty is unswerving, has supposedly invested $8.5 million into this new company and yet Gil's wife complains they can't afford a new washing machine. Why is he so loyal then? He's clearly getting shafted! At one point he is also told to take a potential investor to lunch and to spend big to give the impression that they are "rolling in dough." $8.5 million buys a lot of lunch.
Bellow's wife seems to be dumber than most of the contents of their fridge, if not all. Her character is completely unbelievable, in her level of trust to the headhunter, in her lack of trust of her husband, in her failure to show any response at all when it is clear to everyone the headhunter is a maniac. If I was Bellows I would have killed her myself. She is as horrible and shallow as she is dumb. And Bellow's character is no less dumb at times. He gets a gift from someone he hates for his daughter and yet he gives it to her. Nobody would do that. Nobody. His instant conversion to Bale's buddy is equally ludicrous.
Every frame of this movie is ridiculous, with a climax where we are supposed to believe that the athletic, psychopathic and armed headhunter is defeated by the gawky and geeky Bellows, who looks like he can barely manage to break into a run. I'd bet the house on the headhunter winning that one 10 times out of 10.
Appalling movie, worth watching only to laugh at its inanity. Especially good are the "techno" sections. At one point there is a screen displaying binary in a huge font, as if that's useful to anybody. Maybe the high (low) point of the movie.
His boss, to whom his loyalty is unswerving, has supposedly invested $8.5 million into this new company and yet Gil's wife complains they can't afford a new washing machine. Why is he so loyal then? He's clearly getting shafted! At one point he is also told to take a potential investor to lunch and to spend big to give the impression that they are "rolling in dough." $8.5 million buys a lot of lunch.
Bellow's wife seems to be dumber than most of the contents of their fridge, if not all. Her character is completely unbelievable, in her level of trust to the headhunter, in her lack of trust of her husband, in her failure to show any response at all when it is clear to everyone the headhunter is a maniac. If I was Bellows I would have killed her myself. She is as horrible and shallow as she is dumb. And Bellow's character is no less dumb at times. He gets a gift from someone he hates for his daughter and yet he gives it to her. Nobody would do that. Nobody. His instant conversion to Bale's buddy is equally ludicrous.
Every frame of this movie is ridiculous, with a climax where we are supposed to believe that the athletic, psychopathic and armed headhunter is defeated by the gawky and geeky Bellows, who looks like he can barely manage to break into a run. I'd bet the house on the headhunter winning that one 10 times out of 10.
Appalling movie, worth watching only to laugh at its inanity. Especially good are the "techno" sections. At one point there is a screen displaying binary in a huge font, as if that's useful to anybody. Maybe the high (low) point of the movie.