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Weapons of Mass Distraction (1997)

Rate: 6
Viewed: 7/24

7/24: Weapons of Mass Distraction isn't my kind of movie, but it doesn't mean it's bad.

Showing a lot of feel from Barbarians at the Gate which was made by the same company, HBO, four years earlier, there's a lot of business talk that's hard to follow. I tried to make sense of what the characters were saying but couldn't understand some of it. In regard to the aforementioned film, it turns out that I was correct because Larry Gelbart adapted the screenplay from the famous business book.

Nevertheless, the concept is interesting and probably true of the soulless high-powered business elites nowadays who have too much money. I can see why the inclusion when it comes to the average Joe and his wife who have been affected by all of this. What completely threw me off is that Gabriel Byrne's character didn't know that his wife was a he, but I don't think it should be hard to figure out, right? Anyway, the performances are fine, and everybody is well-cast.

All in all, I'll need to see Weapons of Mass Distraction again to understand the writing more.

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