| RATING: | 40% |
| FORMAT: | DVD |
A movie desperately looking for an excuse to exist. The characters make no sense as people - neither do their relationships to others nor themselves.
The plot is purest hokum and tries hard to be an over-the-top parody of the Manchurian Candidate-type films it mimics. But excess is not the essence of parody; a knowing and loving sense of what one is parodying is. More proof that comics rarely make good movies.
The impressive actors cast here are only doing it for the money, such that the story of a bunch of bored, aging Cold Warriors is matched by the implied theme of a bunch of bored, aging Hollywood stars needing something to do before they drop off the perch.
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