The elaborate suspense revolving around the toxic mix of oil, money and politics that the media only ever seems to brush the surface, makes for heady viewing.

Full Review | Mar 26, 2007

[T]he feeling of concrete, this-ain't-science-fiction reality the film creates is effectively low-key eerie...

| Jun 25, 2006

Works more effectively as a collegiate dissertation than a fictional dissection of people caught in events beyond their control.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 23, 2005

...astoundingly dull...

| Original Score: .5/4 | Aug 21, 2005

Basically, The Deal looks and sounds a whole lot like a big-budget, feature-length 온라인카지노추천 commercial for Merrill Lynch.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 20, 2005

There's too much of that inside-baseball talk, and too many ridiculous plot turns that require intelligent people to make really stupid decisions, just so the suspense can be sustained.

Full Review | Jul 11, 2005

Most of the action takes place in board meetings, with characters handing each other secret memos or talking on the phone; it's a shockingly non-visual movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 29, 2005

Would you put a billion-dollar deal in the hands of Christian Slater?

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 25, 2005

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 20, 2005

Though torn from tomorrow's political headlines, the story is too convoluted to be either entertaining or comprehensible.

| Original Score: C | Jun 18, 2005

Epstein and Kahn might have been better off leaving the assassinations, kidnappings and cliffhangers to Grisham and made a simpler, more realistic movie about a desperate young banker juggling deals and trying to stay afloat.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 18, 2005

This is one hell of a cast and they all do a great job with the piss-poor script.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jun 18, 2005

Far from the real deal when it comes to even a modicum of plausibility on a politically hot topic.

| Original Score: 0.5/4 | Jun 17, 2005

Seldom entertaining.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2005

Shot largely in Toronto and cast with the best of the B-list, this film has the low-rent gloss of a made-for-cable thriller.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jun 17, 2005

One and a half cheers for the old college try...[but] The Deal has straight-to-cable written all over it

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jun 17, 2005

Full of dizzying technical detail that only those in mergers-and-acquisitions may fully appreciate.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2005

A flat, would-be thriller pausing briefly on its journey to video stores.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 17, 2005

A dialogue-heavy affair that, while overly complicated, turns out to be pretty predictable in the end.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 17, 2005

The dialogue is so heavy with exposition that it is like asking the actors to chew rocks.

Full Review | Original Score: D | Jun 17, 2005