Waste of time

Sadly Over-hyped

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Dear Coen Brothers, I re-watched Fortune because it was in your Top 5 movies of all time list. I had watched it as a kid on a videotape. But I did not recall much of it. Frankly, I think the film is a bit of a mess. The scenes weren't that funny or anything. Except maybe the one where Channing cooks for her two lovers. Jack Nicholson's performance was particularly uninspired. I have never seen such an uninspired show by Nicholson. The character was perfect for him though. Nothing wrong with the casting. Stockard Channing was sexy and stole the show from Nicholson and Beatty. The film does get pretty dark towards the end. I liked the aspect of the film where the male homo-social desire of the two men overpowered their mutual desire for the woman. They could have done more with it. Maybe you should remake the film, Coens. Best Regards, Pimpin. (5/10)

A flat-out perfect classic farce. It's a blend of sophisticated and low comedy, delicious, masterful comedy acting by actors at the top of their form. The classic dialogue walks the fine line between silliness and believability extremely well. Photography, production design, costumes and score are all top-flight. The actors have a field day with these larger-than-life but universal characters – they are expert farceurs. Beatty channels Barrymore and gives one of his best performances and he is VERY handsome! Nicholson is equally good in a rare truly comic role, and Channing is just fantastic - she easily earns her top billing (in her first starring role!), as is Florence Stanley as a latter-day Thelma Ritter.It's like a soufflé - delicious but nearly impossible to pull off. Mike Nichols is a genius comedy director (he's not bad with drama either!). This film is incredibly well paced, setting the right tone and balance throughout - it reminds me of Hawks' His Girl Friday and Bringing Up Baby. It has the same twisted logic and just laugh-out-loud humor. It's just really, really funny. It has a terrific screenplay by Carole Eastman, who also wrote Five Easy Pieces (talk about extremes). If 30s films could have been this sexually frank you could imagine Cagney or Tracy in the Beatty role, Cary Grant as Nicholson and Jean Arthur or Irene Dunne as Channing doing this kind of material.I was shocked to read so many strongly negative reactions to this film here on IMDb, but I didn't get this film on my first go-round either. I think it's never found an audience because it's sophisticated and a bit obtuse; also, standards have fallen so low that many people can only accept comedies they've experienced before and feel safe with.I'm looking forward to many re-viewings and sharing it with friends.

I had a hard time figuring out what was going on, and while there were comedy, it was very dark and delivered by actors not well-suited to my particular taste.Stockard Channing was the mistress to Warren Beatty's character (I'm not that familiar with him but certainly wouldn't have recognized him). And she was rich ("The Fortune" of the title) and knew that's all Beatty wanted her for. But in order to comply with the Mann act, she had to be married to Jack Nicholson's character (legally). Beatty claimed Nicholson was his brother. Explaining the naughty antics to the landlady (Florence Stanley, someone I've liked a lot over the years) turned out to be a challenge, but somehow they met them. It seems Nicholson wanted to do what he could legally, even though the whole thing was a scam so Beatty could do what Nicholson was doing. All of this took a while for me to figure out, since I kept thinking I knew what was going on and then kept being proved wrong.What made this movie truly worthwhile was the zany ending. Very funny, lots of action and confusion--but this time it was the good kind of confusion.

It is easy to see why i had never heard of this movie before because it is so bad and it's hard to see a cast this great in a movie so bad. Hard to believe this was directed by Mike Nichols and stars Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson. The movie is set in the 1920's in which there is a law that saw you cannot take a woman across state lines for immoral purposes. Beatty is in love with Stockard Channing and has Nicholson get married to her and the movie doesn't make it clear why Beatty didn't marry her in the first place. Beatty is going to pose as her brother and they are going to California. It then turns out that both of them are only interested in her money and she isn't too happy about that. The movie is pretty bad and this movie deserves to be unknown.