Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Al Pacino,Jack Lemmon, Kevin Spacey, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin, Jonathan Pryce, this is a doctorate in acting, both, movie and theater. Perfect characters because there was an outstanding acting. Pacino (my favorite actor) is the best, he really sinks into his character. If you can appreciate powerful acting, then this movie will blow your mind. 9/10

This is a great story that Mamet shows with his dialogue and the film makers retained some of the visual elements of the theater with a minimal change in sets. It is a tragic story of real estate salesmen struggling to close that deal. Mamet develops great characters with great performances by Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, and Alec Baldwin.

Several struggling salesman are given a short amount of time to prove their worth as valuable and essential assets to the company they work for in the fiercely cut-throat world of real estate.Director James Foley and screenwriter David Mamet not only astutely capture the raw desperation and compromised integrity of a handful of down on their luck guys who are just barely hanging on by their fingernails, but also capture both the nerve-wracking pressure cooker nature of do or die white collar hustling and the savage competitive mindset of the predatory alpha dog male psyche with equally bracing acuity and potency. The outstanding acting by the bang-up cast keeps this film humming: Al Pacino growls curse words and radiates pure sleaze with incendiary brio as ruthless and aggressive hot shot Ricky Roma, Jack Lemmon contributes a gut-wrenching turn as sadsack washed-up has-been Shelley "The Machine" Levine, Ed Harris hits the right cynical note as the bitter and deceitful Dave Moss, Alan Arkin cuts a poignantly pathetic figure as the hopelessly meek George Aaronow, Kevin Spacey oozes smug superiority as flinty office manager John Williamson, Jonathan Pryce elicits sympathy as vulnerable mark James Lingk, and Alec Baldwin delivers a bravura cameo as vicious motivational speaker Blake. Both Juan Ruiz Anchia's crisp cinematography and James Newton Howard's spare jazzy score are up to speed. An absolute powerhouse.

This film is undoubtedly one of my favourites of all time and that's because of it's brilliant portrayal of salesmen, it's stellar, sorry interstellar cast and its driving plot.One thing I really liked about this film (and it's Pulitzer prize winning source) is its 100 minute run-time. In that short 100 minutes, the film expressed to me more about the sales business did than Wall Street did in 126 minutes.Unfamiliarity - In this film, we're given an unfamiliar situation. There's no other film like this, so this is the first time we're actually being placed in this sort of situation. That's what gets us intrigued.Familiarity - Majority of the film takes place in one room. That gives us familiarity in terms of setting. We feel like home in that room, in a sense that we know how the characters move inside. The same is with 12 Angry Men and Reservoir Dogs. If unfamiliarity got us started, familiarity keeps us going.Next, the performances. Can we change that Best Actor to Denzel Washington for Malcolm X and that Best Supporting Actor to Al Pacino for Glengarry Glen Ross? Al Pacino is fantastic in this film. Kevin Spacey's performance makes you sympathise with him and hate him at the same time. Jack Lemmon makes you love him. Alan Arkin and Ed Harris are equally great. Alec Baldwin really has "brass balls".On a last note, I cannot talk about this film without commenting on it's fantastic editing. The editing is just marvellous. We cut back and forth and back and forth really fast when the conversation keeps rambling. We feel the conversation's tension and its rhythm when the actors and editors do what they do best.