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03/20/01
Company Man (2001)
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Reviews Counted:62
Fresh:9
Rotten:53
Average Rating:3.3/10
Consensus: A flat and misconceived movie with big stars.
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: COMPANY MAN, cowritten and codirected by Douglas McGrath (EMMA) and Peter Askin, is an AUSTIN POWERS meets THE PINK PANTHER screwball farce about the 1959 Cuban revolution. Allen Quimp (McGrath) is... [More]
Starring: Douglas McGrath, Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro, Denis Leary
Director: Peter Askin, Douglas McGrath
Reviews for Company Man
The rapid-fire gags are relentlessly cute and announce themselves with all the subtlety of a pounding headache.
03/16/01
It all adds up to a few good bits spread thinly across an even thinner concept for a movie.
03/16/01
A lamentably incompetent spy send up…a lame period comedy stalled in neutral and filled with drop dreadful jokes rejected from Get Smart! and disbarred vaudeville routines.
03/12/01
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03/12/01
Company Man offers precious little to laugh about.
03/09/01
A smart comedy melding cold-war paranoia and pre-feminism gender roles that only intermittently succeeds is far more welcome than yet another big, loud, juvenile attempt to make us laugh.
03/09/01
Second-rate fare.
03/09/01
The script, by co-writers and -directors Douglas McGrath and Peter Askin, is intermittently clever, but their direction is leaden and assassinates every gag with a lethal accuracy the CIA could only hope to achieve.
03/09/01
Company Man is to filmmaking what Molotov cocktails are to social gatherings.
03/09/01
The characters can be quite funny but not enough to sustain a feature-length movie.
03/09/01
Unfortunately loses steam and most of its senses as it progresses, turning what could have been a charming spy caper into a mostly painful mess.
03/09/01
The low-down dirtiest of shames.
03/09/01
In 2001, the political satire in Company Man has about as much relevance as listening to Mort Sahl tell Eisenhower jokes.
03/09/01
The film's a jaw-dropping embarrassment, making a bad movie year even worse.
03/09/01
Contemplating this bummer of a comedy is like contemplating the great nothingness that Zen gurus and French existentialists tell us is the essence of the world.
03/09/01
Too often we feel that left-out-in-the-cold draft that blows over the shoulder whenever actors appear to be having more fun than the audience.
03/09/01
The movie often feels semi-improvised.
03/09/01
Top CriticExceedingly lame, if starry, spoof on the Bay of Pigs invasion.
03/09/01
The tone is relentlessly frenetic and stupidly juvenile.
03/09/01
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