Middle Men Review

You can shoot two hours of guns, violence, sex and explosions, but if you don’t have a story to tell you might as well not bother. This stands doubly true for anything labeled “Based On A True Events” – if it’s not an interesting narrative who cares if it really happened. Fortunately, not only does George Gallo’s Middle Men have a true story to tell, but a completely insane one.

Jack Harris (Luke Wilson) is a fixer – he can take any company with issues, teach it how to manage those issues, and walk out the other side back to his lovely wife and family in Texas. Unfortunately for him, he knows a corrupt lawyer named Jerry Hagerty (James Caan) who tells him about this pair of drugged-out losers (Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht) who have stumbled upon a trillion dollar idea: upload pictures and video of naked women on to the internet and charge men to see it. With Jack’s help, the three of them make more money than they could have ever dreamed of. But with that kind of money problems are never far behind, and when you’re dealing with the porn industry, the Russian mafia, the FBI, and juggling more than a few lies, those problems grow quickly.

Based on the true story of Christopher Mallick, who served as a producer on the film, Middle Men is wickedly fast-paced, almost to a fault. It demands every second of your attention and even the quickest of bathroom breaks could easily leave you lost amidst its 105 minute run time. Multiple plot details arrive in every scene, either by the action or Wilson’s ever present voice-over narration. What makes it work is that the film’s story and characters are engaging enough to make focusing on what’s happening effortless. Detailed though it is, it seems certain that there was even more to Mallick’s story, left out of a script already bordering on being overly-cluttered.

Critical to Middle Men’s success is the performance of Luke Wilson, a talented actor who hasn’t had a role this worthy in far too long. Very much the level-headed balance to the wacked out characters played by Ribisi and Macht, Wilson’s Jack Harris could have easily been played as a stoic by someone with lesser talents, but you’ll feel for him as he finds himself stranded in a world he stumbled into completely by accident. Jack’s is a man who recognizes a great idea when he hears one. By running with that idea, Harris ends up out of his element, dealing with government agents and organized crime syndicates. When he needs to show a backbone he does, and when he needs to be frightened he is.

Good though Wilson is, it’s Ribisi and Macht who steal every scene. One is a former veterinarian who scheduled ill-advised surgeries to score pet pain pills and the other is a disgraced NASA engineer fired for using coke in a wind tunnel after hours. Together they make up a team that, in any other world, would consider getting up off the couch a win. Individually they work well enough, but it’s the pairing of the two that really raises the bar. Though long time friends and roommates, they frequently end up at each others throats, and it’s funny every time. Middle Men is really about Jack Harris, but it’s these two that stoke the narrative’s fire.

The true story of the birth of internet porn is every bit the wild ride you’d expect. Filled to the brim with winning characters and subplots – the biggest problem for Middle Men is that a 105 minutes isn’t really enough to do it all justice. At some point writer/director Gallo and writing partner Andy Weiss must have had a crucial decision to make: cut out something important in favor of a more linear and straight-forward story or do Mallick right by including everything possible at the expense of clarity. It’s a no win situation, but you have to respect them for choosing option B. Middle Men is not a great movie, but it does right by an unbelievable legend.

Middle Men Details

Length: 105 min

Rated: R

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Release Date:  2010-08-06

Starring: Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht, Kevin Pollack, James Caan, Terry Crewes, Rade Serbedzija, Jacinda Barrett, Laura Ramsey

Directed by George Gallo

Produced by Christopher Mallick, William Sherak, Jason Shuman, Michael Weiss, Shaliza Somani, Andy Weiss, Daniel S. Frisch, Nate Blonde

Written by George Gallo, Andy Weiss

The Other Guys - Review

The cop comedy took a beating earlier this year when Kevin Smith's Cop Out emerged not just as the most unfunny movie of his career, but also his biggest hit. Adam McKay's The Other Guys isn't quite brilliant enough to make up for it, and doesn't come close to the sublime weirdness of his previous film Step Brothers, but it is a much funnier attempt to inject comedy into the familiar cop procedural, and yet another chance for audiences to stumble in on his long collaboration with Will Ferrell and marvel at what they come up with.

The central problem this time around is that, unlike the happily rambling Anchorman and Step Brothers, The Other Guys relies on plot and a lot of it, getting its cop characters wrapped up in financial scandal and armed robbery and kidnapping that's way too much for McKay and his co-writer Chris Henchy to handle. The best moments, as in all of McKay's movies, are when the myriad bizarre characters have the time to bounce off one another, which luckily happens just enough in The Other Guys to make up for long stretches of dull and derivative plot.

At the center of it all, as always, is Ferrell as Allen, a buttoned-up version of his usual manchlid who was perfectly happy as an accountant for the police force until he was, for some reason, bumped up to detective. He's paired up with disgraced hothead Terry (Mark Wahlberg) who was sentenced to desk duty after accidentally shooting Derek Jeter (appearing as himself in one of the film's many star cameos). Terry is dying to get back out on the streets, especially with rival detective team Fosse (Damon Wayans Jr.) and Martin (Rob Riggle) taunting him constantly, but Allen is too cautious to put himself in danger, and the two exchange insults while the superstar cops of the force (Samuel L. Jackson and Dwayne Johnson, both hilarious and perfectly cast) dump their paperwork on Terry and Allen's desks.

It wouldn't be much of a movie if Terry and Allen didn't get called into action, but I'll be honest with you-- I can't remember, a day later, the plot machinations that put them in touch with Steve Coogan's slimy investor and his mysterious Australian kidnapper, and no one in the movie seemed to care much about them anyway. The best parts are all about riffs, whether it's Wayans and Riggle puffing up their chests, Michael Keaton's boss character moonlighting at Bed Bath & Beyond and getting his staff pumped up about bathmats, or Ferrell giving an epic monologue about how a pack of tuna would kill and eat a lion. McKay frequently abandons the plot entirely in order to put Terry and Allen in more weird situations, from visiting one of Allen's inexplicably hot exes to a slo-mo montage of a wild night of drinking that takes the plot absolutely nowhere. It's frustrating to realize halfway through that the plot still doesn't make any sense, but when the tangents are this funny, you eventually start looking forward to the next one.

Most of the sprawling cast is very much on board with the weird tone McKay establishes from the beginning, and Eva Mendes is particularly, unexpectedly funny as the wife with looks Allen just can't seem to appreciate (but who Terry can't stop ogling). Oddly Wahlberg is the one who frequently slows down the momentum; so razor-sharp and quick in I Heart Huckabee's and The Departed, his comic timing seems off here, and his repartee with Ferrell frequently amounts to shouting "Shut up!" and pointing a gun. He's game for anything, though, including a dance scene in a crosswalk and some actual action scenes on top of it all. Forgive me if I just would have rather seen Ferrell team up with John C. Reilly again.

Maybe the most fascinating thing about The Other Guys is the closing credits sequence, a sharp and utterly un-ironic takedown of Wall Street and the financial industry told in concise and clever graphics. It's totally out of place given the sloppy silliness that came before it, and emphasizes the Ponzi scheme plot that was largely incoherent in the movie, but the credits may actually be able to work up some populist rage among people who paid to see Mark Wahlberg throw coffee on Will Ferrell. That doesn't quite make up for the movie being too disorganized to achieve its potential, but counts for something

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Marmaduke, the world’s most lovable Great Dane, leaps from comic strip fame (appearing in 600 newspapers in over 20 countries) to big screen stardom in this family comedy event. A suburban family moves to a new neighborhood in Orange County, California with their large yet lovable Great Dane, who has a tendency to wreak havoc in his own oblivious way. But its not all living large for the Duke, who finds that fitting in with his new four-legged friends – and a potential romantic interest – isn’t always easy for a super-sized teenage dog. Owen Wilson gives the beloved Great Dane his voice in the film, which also features the voices of Fergie, George Lopez, Emma Stone and Kiefer Sutherland.

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