There are a lot of good ideas swimming around in this James Toback film, unfortunately very little comes together. Ray Sharkey is a banker, feeling lost in his dead end job. He is hired by creepy tycoon Klaus Kinski to "influence" his former college roommate (South American presidente Armand Assante) into allowing his country's rich silver ore to be mined out. Kinski's devious wife Ornella Muti literally seduces Sharkey into saying yes. Things do not work out...for anyone. Sharkey, a great actor who died too young, is dynamite and Muti is pretty seductive. Kinski is Kinski. Toback's ambitions do him in with this film. Instead of insight into love, money, loyalty and deception, we get a muddled expose of corruption. Legendary film director King Vidor plays Sharkey's sometimes senile, sometimes oddly wise grandfather.
Review of Love & Money
