Lovesusti The Worst Film Ever

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Michael Ledo It is always nice to get out while you are on top, before you are caught with your finger in the pie. This is what a dishonest, cheating Robert Miller (Richard Gere) is attempting to do. This is a semi-crime drama that comes at you rather fast with no time for character build up. Robert Miller is unlikeable, but the film doesn't build character for anyone else. I found myself rooting for minor characters who are more honest than Miller, but not puritanical.Brit Marling as the overly smart daughter played a convincing role, but Susan Sarandon as the wife did not have the lines she needed to excel. The individual scene dialouge was predictable. The film is more of a crime drama with the financial empire and deals being part of the background dealings setting up Gere's character.Might be worth watching once. A film you will forget an hour after you have seen it. Not a keeper.Parental Guide: F-bombs, brief sex, no nudity

jc-osms A watchable if scarcely credible thriller set in the high-rolling financial world, centring on Richard Gere's patriarchal mega-rich New York financier looking to close one last deal on his 60th birthday, the sale of his family business, before retiring. But of course there are complications, firstly, he's borrowed over $400 million to plug a big hole in his business balance sheet and needs the company sale to the mysterious and elusive Mr Mayfield to go through to cover his tracks, but not before his daughter, an executive in the business, gets wind of the cover-up. Then there's his inevitable affair with a pretty young French art dealer with a cocaine habit and apparent attention deficit syndrome ready to bring matters to a head if he doesn't start putting her first. Then fate takes an unlikely hand as he falls asleep at the wheel while driving his lover to a love-nest, the resultant crash killing her outright in the process, whereupon he involves a young black ex-felon who owes him a favour and who agrees to again help cover up his tracks in the face of a determined police investigation led by Tim Roth as a disgruntled, stop-at-nothing detective.Stylishly directed in and around New York, it's well acted by its name cast, but ultimately it implodes with just too much dramatic incident in too little time reducing the believability of events. For instance, would the police really fake a vital piece of evidence just to nail this particular billionaire when there are clearly no other suspects to the girl's death? Do financiers like Gere's Robert Harris and his deliverer Mayfield really close business by agreeing written terms on the back of a restaurant menu.Still, regardless of the"sexing-up" of what is probably the very mundane and arcane world of high finance and hedge funds, all the various strands were pulled together nicely, plus you can take your pick of which famous family dynasty from which the writers drew inspiration for the Miller family.There was little here we've not seen lately in various TV mini-series where the action would have been spread over ten 50 minute episodes and telescoped here into a 100 minute movie probably overegged the pudding but nonetheless Gere makes you watch his character's increasingly desperate attempts at survival from beginning to end in an above average thriller.

Stephen Abell When this came on the telly the description wasn't a pull and the IMDb description isn't any better... and we all know that what you see in the trailer could be the best the movie has to offer. What pulled me into watching the film was Tim Roth, Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon.I am so glad I chose to watch the movie.The start of the film is slow and too business orientated, I can understand why the director, Nicholas Jarecki, who also wrote the story, chose to show you this side as one of the main issues is the future of the company Robert Miller has built up from nothing. I think it could have been trimmed a little as it could cause the viewer to become unconcerned and turn off. This would be a mistake.The main section of the film is concerned with Robert Miller's actions and reactions to a car accident he and his mistress are involved in and the ensuing police investigation. What lengths will he go to come out of the mess he's created, help his family survive his mistake, and keep a friend out of jail?Jarecki does a brilliant job of keeping a nice pace going, once the action starts and getting good performances from his cast. There are some nicely shot scenes; I really liked the car accident. Story-wise, he is good at keeping the viewer attention and drawing them into the tale, which is strong and full of twists and turns. However, I think we should have seen more of Ellen Miller, Robert's wife, as the issues in the film would have encompassed her more personally than we got to see.The actors do a wonderful job at portraying their characters. If you like crime drama's with action, suspense, twists and turns, a decent story, good direction and excellent acting then this film is for you... just stay with it through the boring start.

Lee Eisenberg While watching Nicholas Jarecki's "Arbitrage", I got the feeling that it was serving as an indictment of the Wall Street crowd as much as it was about a single person's mistake. Richard Gere's hedge fund manager is exactly the type of amoral person whose actions brought the world economy to ruin. As much as his personal mistake snowballs and causes further tragedy, it's trivial compared to what his business does. And then there's his entire life: he and his wife (Susan Sarandon) and daughter (Brit Marling) spend all their free time attending banquets and exchanging money with other rich snobs.It's a really interesting movie. Gere's character, like Gordon Gekko and Jordan Belfort, sees nothing questionable about his lifestyle or betraying someone to cover up his misdeed. And these types of people are still among us. Too big to jail indeed.I recommend the movie, although I thought that Susan Sarandon and Tim Roth were underused.