VividSimon Simply Perfect

Moustroll Good movie but grossly overrated

TrueHello Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Mandeep Tyson The acting in this movie is really good.

Syl Academy Award winners, Chris Cooper, Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones played men of a big conglomerate company known as GTX. Chris Cooper played Phil Woodward, the longtime company employee who rose from the bottom to the top. Ben Affleck played Bob Walker, a family man with two young children, a wife and house in the suburbs. When he is let go, he has only three months to get another job. Tommy Lee Jones played Gene McClatchy. As we watch the film unfolds, the men are slowly cut from the same company. Somebody doesn't handle it well. Chris Cooper played the role of Phil best of all. He is desperate to work again but at 60 years old, who will hire him. Tommy Lee Jones watches as thousands are let go. Ben Affleck deserved praise for his performance as Bob. There are other great performances like Rosemarie DeWitt's Maggie, Kevin Costner's Jack, Craig T. Nelson's character and Maria Bello's Sally Wilcox. In this day and age, the characters are familiar and also sympathetic to today's world.

slightlymad22 Continuing my plan to watch every Kevin Costner movie in order, I come to 2010's Company Men Plot In A Paragraph: A year in the life of three men (Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones and Chris Cooper) trying to survive corporate downsizing at a major company, and how that affects them and their families.I will say from the off, I don't understand the hate that Affleck gets, as I usually enjoy his movies that vary in tone, style and subject matter drastically from Company Men, Armageddon, Argo, Reindeer Games, Dogma and Hollywoodland or the what I consider the under rated Jersey Girl (OK I may be on my own on that one lol) All different and I enjoy him in all of them. Tommy Lee Jones delivers his best performance in years and Chris Cooper is heartbreaking!! In a small role, Company Men features one of the best performances from the latter half of Kevin Costner's career!! I think he should have been nominated for Best Supporting Actor, however come nomination time, I was surprised as the movie didn't garner a single nomination. There is a stubborn arrogance to Affleck's character in the beginning, so it's kind of hard to root for him whilst he is driving round in a Porsche and spending time in his posh golf club, but as the movie goes on, and he is forced to take a manual job with KC, one he threw back in his face, scoffing at the very notion earlier in the movie, you do start to feel for him. All in all an excellent movie. It doesn't have a lot of rewatchable value for me as it is so depressing but it's great non the less.

valadas Indeed. And tough indeed. The story of excellent employees and even executive cadres that are suddenly fired because their work is subjected to the directions and tendencies of the markets that rule the companies successes or failures. People don't count at all. What counts are numbers and figures on excel reports. This is shown in this movie with truly realistic authenticity through short meaningful sequences of images, action and dialogues. The salary compensations and a few savings are spent fast. Then the fired workers cannot pay the house mortgage anymore and lose the house or they must sell it for a low price then they must sell their cars as well and they must go to live with their parents (if they still have them). When they have kids the tragedy becomes greater. They keep knocking at closed doors trying unsuccessfully to get a new job. Human relations (especially at home) get deteriorated sometimes. It ends in suicide in some cases. This movie shows a reality of our neo-liberal times and must be seen by all means since it was on of the best movies made on that year, well acted and well directed.

a.lampert I'm reviewing this movie because I experienced redundancy recently but was lucky enough to be able to retire. Those who haven't been so lucky may find it painful viewing as I thought it really got to grips with reality. In fact this is one of the more enjoyable films that I have seen recently due to it's honesty. American movies (I'm English) often have a gloss to nasty situations but I found this very refreshing in its no-nonsense handling of a very painful subject, redundancy. In fact I found it riveting from beginning to end, mostly due to good directing, a tight script, beautiful photography, and splendid acting from Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Ben Affleck, Maria Bello, Craig T. Nelson and in particular in a small supporting role, an absolute knockout I thought, Kevin Costner. Highly recommended movie.