The Deal (2004)
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Reviews Counted: 34
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 27
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Average Rating: 4.3/10
Critic Reviews: 13
Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 10
No consensus yet.
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Money and power bring major corruption to the world's energy marketplace in this taut political drama. After a long war between the United States and a coalition of Middle Eastern nations leads to a gap in the flow of multinational oil trading, the price of gasoline in America shoots past six dollars a gallon and both the energy industry and the stock market are walking on thin ice. In the midst of this instability, Tom Hansen (Christian Slater), a leading advisor at of one Wall Street's top
Cast
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Christian Slater
Tom Hansen -
Selma Blair
Abbey Gallagher -
John Heard
Professor Roseman -
Angie Harmon
Anna -
Kevin Tighe
John Cortland -
Francoise Yip
Janice -
Jim Thorburn
Shane -
Colm Feore
Hank -
Robert Loggia
Jared Tolson -
Philip Granger
Jerome -
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All Critics (42) | Top Critics (18) | Fresh (8) | Rotten (27) | DVD (6)
There's too much of that inside-baseball talk, and too many ridiculous plot turns that require intelligent people to make really stupid decisions, just so the suspense can be sustained.
Top CriticEpstein and Kahn might have been better off leaving the assassinations, kidnappings and cliffhangers to Grisham and made a simpler, more realistic movie about a desperate young banker juggling deals and trying to stay afloat.
Far from the real deal when it comes to even a modicum of plausibility on a politically hot topic.
Seldom entertaining.
The Deal clearly aims at being a roman-a-clef. Instead it's more of a roman-a-clumsy.
The elaborate suspense revolving around the toxic mix of oil, money and politics that the media only ever seems to brush the surface, makes for heady viewing.
The elaborate suspense revolving around the toxic mix of oil, money and politics that the media only ever seems to brush the surface, makes for heady viewing.
[T]he feeling of concrete, this-ain't-science-fiction reality the film creates is effectively low-key eerie...
Works more effectively as a collegiate dissertation than a fictional dissection of people caught in events beyond their control.
...astoundingly dull...
Basically, The Deal looks and sounds a whole lot like a big-budget, feature-length TV commercial for Merrill Lynch.
Most of the action takes place in board meetings, with characters handing each other secret memos or talking on the phone; it's a shockingly non-visual movie.
Would you put a billion-dollar deal in the hands of Christian Slater?
Though torn from tomorrow's political headlines, the story is too convoluted to be either entertaining or comprehensible.
This is one hell of a cast and they all do a great job with the piss-poor script.
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