This is pretty good satire. Biggest surprise was just how effective the Core guy was in the lead. Wow. He should run for office! He was funny, vicious and dead-on. The media gets theirs' in this bigtime. Kudos to Joan Lunden for being there for the ride as well.
The cast has many a familiar face-Mario Bello, Rob Lowe, Bill Macy, all very good. Robert Duvall and J K Simmons play their CEO roles to the hilt as well. I also thought Eckhardt's son was effective.
Where the movie failed, if you will-relatively speaking--was the final congressional hearing. I didn't see Eckhardt getting the better of Macy at all. I also didn't buy Katie Holmes as a Diane Sawyer type reporter who'd bed her targets for story info. She just looks barely 18 and like in Batman Begins as a DA, just is miscast.
Sam Elliott was good in his turn as the Marlboro man to, I want to add. Anything he's in is a plus.
Overall, I liked this quite a bit. The 'MOD Squad' stuff was the best part. You will enjoy the first half hour or so the most and you kinda wish it stayed in that vein the entire way thru.
*** outta ****
The cast has many a familiar face-Mario Bello, Rob Lowe, Bill Macy, all very good. Robert Duvall and J K Simmons play their CEO roles to the hilt as well. I also thought Eckhardt's son was effective.
Where the movie failed, if you will-relatively speaking--was the final congressional hearing. I didn't see Eckhardt getting the better of Macy at all. I also didn't buy Katie Holmes as a Diane Sawyer type reporter who'd bed her targets for story info. She just looks barely 18 and like in Batman Begins as a DA, just is miscast.
Sam Elliott was good in his turn as the Marlboro man to, I want to add. Anything he's in is a plus.
Overall, I liked this quite a bit. The 'MOD Squad' stuff was the best part. You will enjoy the first half hour or so the most and you kinda wish it stayed in that vein the entire way thru.
*** outta ****