Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | March 28, 2005 | | Summary | Genius, brilliant, inspired | Content
 | Undoubtedly the greatest sales-related movie I've ever seen. Danny DeVito's speech near the end nearly knocked me off my chair. Genius. Brilliant. Inspired. Writing and acting are both extraordinary. |
| Rating | | | Date | March 06, 2005 | | Summary | See it again | Content
| Several reviewers, and probably many viewers, have found this movie boring. Perhaps they should watch again, or perhaps they are not very deep individuals. It may help to watch it alone. This is a study of character and of existential philosophy and the conflicts arising from individuals having different perspectives. There's much more here than meets the eye and ear, if you are willing to delve. And if you are so willing, you will be rewarded. If you are not willing (or capable) to delve, then you may likely be ... well, bored (though it should still be entertaining). Even the humor is intellectually subtle, lying slightly below the surface of the obvious.
Danny De Vito's soliloquy, though technically not, because it is spoken to the rookie salesman who is not in view, is delivered as the camera zooms ever closer into the face of the actor, and is the crux of the message, the highlight of the movie, and a wonderful screen moment. Go watch it again...ALONE.
I will concede that I was somewhat irritated by the hokey "Chicken-Soup-for-the-Soul" admonitions that segue from the movie to the credits at the end. Though some of these are interesting, and clever, this touch was bit pretentious. I'd rather have remained in the partial reverie where the movie had left me. I found this last touch to be intrusive.
Still, I can go back and find it ...again. I recommend you try it.
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| Rating | | | Date | March 01, 2004 | | Summary | Boring! | Content
| Kevin spacey was right!"This is it?This is f****** it?"
Well I was in a video store one time and my father showed it to me one saturday night as my friends were coming over.but they didnt wanna watch so i watched it.In the middle I FELL ASLEEP!when it was over i claimed "this is boring." If you are going to watch a good Danny Devito movie,watch "Throw Momma from the train",or "twins" etc. |
| Rating | | | Date | February 07, 2004 | | Summary | hidden hero of the USA | Content
| From outside, the USA are seen roughly like a big factory of cowboys and with a powerful army and high skyscrapers. But I think at a more fine level, in these enormous buildings are a personage I think very own of the USA, and he's the salesman, the businessmen, the manager or as you like to say, the man who has to sell the enormous amount of products that are made. These work seems to me as hard as these of the cowboy and there's "Death a salesman" by Arthur Miller, a play made forever, unthinkable outside the USA but universal, so surely the American salesman is the best. He sustains the whole world of commerce, it's only that these people uses not to taste. In Europe these work reminds the painful figure of the prosecuted Jew. Sales seems to be not a heroic work and they are worrying people. Well, in this movie, there are three salesmen, one has yet seen almost all and he's tired and prone to drink, another is a young one, inexperienced and narrow minded. Kevin Spacey, the third, is a fully experienced salesman. They sell industrial lubricants but, who are interested in these? Nobody, and the three men in the Hotel Suite less than anyone in the world excepting perhaps the young one because he hasn't still understood in that consists his work. Sales require decision, so, you sometimes have to go to a striptease club and make love with the dancer at sight of all people. No wonder this a weary work! The young one are scandalized, but after a tense conversation the three men have learned each one at less a thing or two from the others because behind their profession are people who achieves a difficult, hazardous, ultracompetitive work that requires knowledge of all facets of life, not in deep but yes in a very wide area including the selection of the correct hotel and convenient appetizers. At the end, have they sold these damned lubricants to the Big Kahuna? I don't know, perhaps yes, perhaps not and these doesn't matter in this excellent film. |
| Rating | | | Date | January 27, 2004 | | Summary | says it all! | Content
| Just caught this on Bravo yesterday and found it incredibly provocative...thank God someone has done a movie that exercises the mind and challenges the soul instead of reverting to adolescent attention-grabbing and superficial titillation using silly special effects, gratuitous sex or violence to engage the viewer. I'm buying it to show to colleagues! |
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