The Deal Reviews

Blandly moves along

A pretty anodyne film - attempts to be a thrilling story about a corporate deal. but it's not very thrilling and merely competently acted. No chemistry between the leads. Though, there are a humorous number of occasions when people just happen to be walking along the corridor and 'just happen' to overhear salient conversations in the next room. Suggests corporations and governments are often nasty and morally corrupt - what a shock.

Robustly unmemorable.

Avoid

Even if you like Christian Slater, as I do, my advice is to avoid this film if at all possible. The plot is confusing and the lead lady is just awful. She behaves like a 6 year old most of the time in both her body language and dialogue. It is just awful. Sorry, but someone had to tell you! I just don't know what Christian Slater was thinking when he agreed to take this on. Must have been short of a bob or two.

Badly Directed

When I saw the trailer and read the overview for this film I thought this was going to be a 'thriller', what they should have called it was a 'borer'. 3 of us watched this and all couldn't really understand the meaning of little 4 second scenes that really went nowhere, only managed to watch the first 50 minutes before finally ejecting the disc!

At least I only wasted 50 minutes of my life watching it.

Hard work

I was disapointed with this film, as i love Christian Slater but found this to be hard to watch, slow and complicated

Bad acting Christian Slater

Quite a good plot and story, I just feel that more could have been done with this particular subject. The film is not helped by some very poor acting from all the cast, making this film sometimes painful to watch. The end scene is the perfect example of this.

Cant believe i rented this

Not very good at all. Direction was terrible, the use of dramatic music was quite pathetic. I would never tell anyone not to watch a film but dont be surprised if you do rent this and find it to be crap.

[Highly rated reviewer]

Not a film we would recommend. 4/10

Does anybody else think that it has been a long time since Mr Slater has been associated with a quality film production? Heathers, Kuffs, even Hard Rain was enjoyable but over the last few years Christian Slater’s movies have been poor lets be honest, Alone in the Dark a shining example. On this occasion Slater moves for a very different type of movie, a political thriller, pairing up with the well respected Selma Blair so the potential was there for a good movie. Making a movie like this work is tough I must admit, you can not score points for comedy value or feel good factors nor can you fill it with chase and fight scenes as you might in an action movie, a thriller like this has to be tense and gripping, the drama must be first class and the story compelling from the outset, sadly The Deal was not. This story follows Slater, a Wall Street career type, as he closes a deal with a Russian Oil company that after a while seems a little fishy to say the least, you will undoubtedly suss the entire plot by about 30 minutes into your viewing. The plot is flimsy but just about intriguing whilst the acting and the on screen chemistry between the lead actors is weak throughout, my wife and I watched it all the way through and took a few small positives but this was not a film we would recommend to anyone regardless of their preferred film style. 4/10. 2 Stars

I was wrong the first time.......

Look, I was wrong the first time I reviewed this garbage.

I mistakenly gave it two stars.

I apologise for misleading others.

I'm sorry.

I'm really sorry.

Honestly, I'm really really sorry.

corporate dealings

the story unfolds at just the right pace and commands your attention all the way through till the very end,Well worth watching.

Crap

Said it all in the heading.