Excellent, Without a doubt!!

One of the best movies of the year! Incredible from the beginning to the end.

A terrific literary drama and character piece that shows how the process of creating art can be seen differently by those doing it and those looking at it from the outside.

Blistering performances.

A potentially good who-done-it drama done in by fatally flawed pacing. Why it was classed as a comedy, I cannot imagine, although I spent a lot time laughing and jeering at my TV screen as the DVD ground on to its conclusion. Very early on I was shouting, "You're being set up," which was obvious when a beautiful but mature woman is hanging around dolefully, like a school girl with a crush on a teacher or the high school football star, so that he gets a good nose full of her pheromones, so I holler, "She's got the hook in you, now she's going to set it and reel you in, you fool," and in boring reel after reel she does her thing. What the film needed at this point was for the sex goddess to show up at the old college campus in the front row of his first class, looking her sweet sorrowful self, crossing and uncrossing her great legs while he sweats and stammers his welcome to the students. (I guess this would make it a "fish out of water" movie.) The sad part is it could'a been a passably good drama, even without Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray touch, laying there balefully like Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness in Apocalypse Now. "Exterminate the brutes!" was more legible than whatever they excerpted from the Dorian Gray story. Too bad. Oh yes, I actually did enjoy the movie. It wasn't all that bad. At least I didn't go to sleep in the middle of it.

Yeah, who'd thought an apparently innocent film would make it like that in the end. This is the kind of movie that you expect nothing from but a cheap entertainment, and fortunately this one almost gets to the next level. The story is average written, it's quite entertaining and has a good twist in the end: that's what we expect from a good movie. But sadly I believe the directing was amateurish and it could have been a lot better, the concept of the movie was very good, but could've been better executed. The ending remembers "Pretty Woman" for an obvious reason.The characters in here are veeery anti ethical, be prepared to see many disgusting scenes that show the bad side of the human nature. But overall be prepared to see a good movie anyways.

This movie didn't know if it was a dark comedy or a thriller or a drama or all three, a better. more experienced director may have been able to blend them all together.What also disappointed me here was the twist after the twist, it should have ended with keaton realizing he had been scammed but again, we have to have a Hollywood ending so in the final scene keaton goes back to school smiling like nothing happened.I didn't see the main twist coming which is always a plus point, I thought there would be a revenge ending but on reflection, its quite implausible what Fraser and Valetta's characters did.Nevertheless if you don't think about this too much, its an OK rainy day movie. I watched it for free on comcast's on demand service which I wouldn't recommend as there are ads for TNT programing every 10 minutes and all the swear words are cut which i didn't like.

Super Salesman Ted (Keaton) takes on a partner, Jamie (Fraser), to show him the ropes. Problems arise when Ted takes a liking to Belise (Valletta), Jamie's fiancée.The beginning of this movie is weird, weird, weird. You have no idea where it's going and only the star power holds you. Why weird? Because of the way Jamie acts and you almost feel like shutting this down, but the star power still holds you. Yes, Fraser does go a little Bad George of the Jungle and this is where you are thinking of watching Lassie reruns. But, still the star power must be worth something so you stick with it. And, in time, it works, sort of. When things go this bad in a movie one must look for clues to find a way out of the mess. And, yes there were clues along the way, oblique ones , but there nevertheless.I understand this movie went straight to DVD probably because the theaters would empty in 20 minutes and reputations would be ruined. When you get to the twist, maybe….. maybe it saves itself.Advice to Michael Keaton: go back and play Batman or some legitimate thriller as this was really a chick flick with men doing the chick flick work. Not good. As for Fraser, he did some good work at the end of the movie and it was refreshing to see him act like an adult for a change. Need to see more of this side of him. Yes, he had to follow the script when he played the dufus, but we were the ones who had to watch him being a dufus. Not good.Violence:No, Sex:Yes, Nudity: Yes, Language, Yes, non-stop