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The Magnificent Seven (1960) guy...The Company Man is a substandard, no budget, boring action schlock and not in a good (so bad it's good) way.Goons are completely unmemorable, screenplay is generic (our bookshop hero is actually a secret agent, who is hunted by a corrupt CIA agent, so the hero calls his buddies, but they are not all his buddies...). Dialog is either plane or stupid. Not a moment of comedy or wit. Action scenes have no impact and are poorly directed (random shots everywhere). Many times, the hero runs around so slowly that it's impossible to miss him (which they off-course do). Production is awful (sets are: some house, some coffee shop, some empty warehouse). There are no bullet holes in gunfights and almost no blood. Direction looks like it belongs in an episode of some soap or like it was done in director's spare time. Acting is flat. Hero is boring and dull. There's a pointless sex scene with no nudity. Music is unfitting, pointless and random. When hero's kid plays a violin, a synth music is played instead. Kid is extremely irritating in her role and looks like she's reading of the cue-cards occasionally. The film has way too much length of hour and a half (without commercials). Robert Vaughn looks mean and threatens people and that's it. His roll is completely unnecessary. How did they get him in this is unimaginable, because the movie's so cheap it couldn't have been the paycheck.Action movies don't have to be great, or big budgeted, or even with a point, but they have to be watchable, they have to have some saving grace (even if it's one single scene or a character) and they can't be 100 % dull.If there ever was a movie for one star...
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