29 August 2016
The Good
The acting is the best. I can't think of another movie with more quality actors in meaningful roles with interesting things to say and do. Jack Lemmon was so sad. Alec Baldwin was convincingly menacing and caring at the same time. Alan Arkin, I liked that he ended up the sane man in the room. Ed Harris did a terrific job hiding behind outrage. Kevin Spacey stole the movie at about the very end with his "fuck you" at Jack Lemmon. Al Pacino was a the top of his game (more on him in a moment). Even Jonathan Pryce ends up being indispensable.
The Bad
Like I told Jacob the other night, the acting in the movie is just too good, so good that it almost overwhelms the movie as a whole. With terrific actors playing engaging characters with awesome lines, it's hard to care about the plot. Who robbed the office? Don't care. Al Pacino just called Kevin Spacey a cunt! It could have gone on and on without any kind of resolution and I would have kept watching.
The Ugly
Ah, Al Pacine. I mean it when I say he was the top of his game in this movie. This movie has to be where Al perfected the performance he would use to such great effect throughout the 90s. But that is the problem. After seeing him use the same performance in "Scent of a Woman", "Heat", and "The Devil's Advocate", it's a little bizarre seeing it in "Glengarry Glen Ross". It would have been something to see "Glengarry Glen Ross" first.
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