Good cast. Boring movie for me. I just didnt care about the sales people. Every time I watched Jack Lemmon's character I just thought of old Gill from The Simpsons. Pacino seemed cast for his voice and the monologues. I didn't think the dialogue was all that great. All the character's dialogue was too simular, and as a result nobody had an individual voice. It was all a few steps away from being a gangster flick as they pushed for a tough world of sales.

Y'all here wouldn't know a good movie if it hit you on the head. Too much talking? Not enough locations? Characters are unlikable? FOH. It was gripping from beginning to end.

shitty movie that i lost 2 hours of my life on this

Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, Ed Harris, Alan Arkin, Kevin Spacey and Alec Baldwin head up this adaptation of an award-studded stage production. Naturally, given a cast so drenched with talent, the audience is going to want to see them flaunt their acting chops, and thankfully, that's the key to this entire production. Without a tight band of intense, versatile, believable characters at its core there's no chance a plot that revolves around sales calls and a bland office robbery would be anything more than a snoozer. But in this cast's hands, with this combination of sharp, passionate dialog and sleazy, self-serving lack of morality, it's totally entrancing. Like many play-to-film interpretations, there is a certain amount of stagnation in terms of the film's scenery. The vast majority of the action takes place in a sales office, with phone calls, police interviews and (de)motivational speakers providing the flavor. Those tame surroundings work in a variety of unusual ways, though: as a means to ground the story in reality, an exercise in diverting our attention solely to the acting, and a device to give the rare peeks outside the office's not-so-friendly confines an added dash of color. A master class in cadence and characterization, it's a deep, emphatic and intoxicating look at the gamut of techniques a desperate salesman can (and will) employ.

There is probably only a small percentage of people in the world who'd watch a film about a group of sleezy real-estate agents. However if those sleezy, a-hole real-estate agents were played by names such as Pacino, Lemmon, Harris and Arkin then it actually would become something of interest. The portrayal of of the characters is brilliant and the dialogue is the best out there, and considering you have some real heavyweights on screen delivering the dialogue, there is no doubt that this film is a top quality black-comedy picture.