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.
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06/29/05
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The Deal (2005)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:7
Rotten:27
Average Rating:4.5/10
Theatrical Release:Jun 17, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Mired in a war in the Middle East, the US is seized by the worst oil shortage in history. Gas prices skyrocket, further weakening an already faltering economy. Wall Street is hobbled by corruption.... [More]
Starring: Christian Slater, Selma Blair, John Heard, Angie Harmon
Director: Harvey Kahn
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Reviews for The Deal
Full of dizzying technical detail that only those in mergers-and-acquisitions may fully appreciate.
06/17/05
Top Critictrips up on translating the language of high stakes finance into intelligible drama
06/14/05
One and a half cheers for the old college try...[but] The Deal has straight-to-cable written all over it
06/17/05
A labyrinth into which the plot tends to disappear.
06/17/05
Top CriticA riveting thriller full of good scares and learned, muckraking insight into the global labyrinth of oil and politics.
06/16/05
Works more effectively as a collegiate dissertation than a fictional dissection of people caught in events beyond their control.
09/23/05
Intrigue comes in the form of Skinemax lovemaking, bad Russian accents, and the lamest car chase in the history of cinema.
06/08/05
Entertaining but muddled corporate thriller.
06/16/05
Top CriticAn attractively packaged political thriller that mixes Wall Street chicanery with mean streets skullduggery.
06/06/05
Top Critic[T]he feeling of concrete, this-ain't-science-fiction reality the film creates is effectively low-key eerie...
06/25/06
Though torn from tomorrow's political headlines, the story is too convoluted to be either entertaining or comprehensible.
06/18/05
Ultimately, the movie fails to get the viewer into any sort of lather.
06/03/05
Never entirely convincing yet always watchable.
06/06/05
Top CriticSurprisingly cogent in its political analysis for much of the way, The Deal falters with a halfhearted endorsement of incremental reform, proving not quite to have the courage of its own cynicism.
06/14/05
Top CriticThis is one hell of a cast and they all do a great job with the piss-poor script.
06/18/05
Shot largely in Toronto and cast with the best of the B-list, this film has the low-rent gloss of a made-for-cable thriller.
06/17/05
If I, a former General Counsel for an oil company, have difficulty understanding the plot of a film based on the oil industry, what chance is there for the ordinary viewer?
06/16/05
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.
03/26/07
The dialogue is so heavy with exposition that it is like asking the actors to chew rocks.
06/17/05
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