Misconduct (2016)

It's fun, it's light, [but] it has a hard time when its tries to get heavy.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

It is an exhilarating, distressing, funny and profound film, with one of the more memorable film scores in years,

I'm embarrassed to say I actually liked this film.Let me say up front, despite some of the reviews here, I had no trouble following it.I also admit I did figure most of it out. This, however, did not keep me from being entertained.I am surprised Pacino and Hopkins signed on for this as neither role is especially great.Someone, somewhere, greenlit this thing and gave it a decent budget, even though it's a first-time director (Shintaro Shimosawa).The story concerns am ambitious young man, Ben Cahill (Josh Duhamel) who goes after fraud perpetrated by a pharmaceutical company owned by Arthur Denning (Anthony Hopkins). Cahill has been cutting corners to make his cases all along; this one is no different, as he obtained the information illegally from an old girlfriend (Malin Akerman). Ben's boss (Al Pacino) gives him the go-ahead to pursue it.Things unravel pretty quickly, as Ben is threatened not only with danger to himself but his wife (Alice Eve); he finds his ex- girlfriend dead and goes on the run.Okay, I happen to think this was an excellent plot clumsily handled by this director, who maybe should have started with something simpler. This is a very complex story to put across, and while some of the camera angles are interesting and I would say this man has talent, it wasn't put together quite right. He tried for a Pulp Fiction thing that didn't quite come off, for one thing; and for another it's just too all over the place.Another problem is that every suspense or mystery movie nowadays has to end with a twist since Usual Suspects. Well, now the twists are expected and passe, so what writers are doing now are putting twists within the twists. It's too much. The acting was okay, but the husband-wife thing between Alice Eve and Duhamel was sketchy and not fleshed out. Not sure who to blame there.Nevertheless, this was a good rental - not sure how I would have felt with these big names attached if I had paid $12 in the theater.

I was initially drawn to this movie, probably like others, because it had two professionals in it, Hopkins and Pacino but strip them out and it's just a slick TV movie. The brief synopsis describing the plot, big business and corruption also intrigued me, maybe it would be a sort of carefully crafted plot, the sort John Grisham would deliver. It all turned to cake though. Josh Duhamel's version of a legal eagle soon got bogged down in emotional entanglements rather than the big business story line.Hopkins and Pacino hadn't too much time on screen but even these few minutes showed up the rather wooden acting of the much younger cast, especially the female leads: Alice Eve; Malin Akerman; Julia Stiles. They just seemed deliver their lines in a cartoon style of moving lips and little else.Some of the camera work was interesting but several jump cuts were jarring (was the movie cut down from a much longer version?) I expect they made sense to director Shimosawa but not to me. The unfolding story chucked in various surprise twists with the last few minutes delivering a completely unknown surprise, I didn't see any clues to indicate this was how the movie would end.Judging by the reviews here and on Amazon this seems a movie you can safely miss.

Conspiracy - Conspiracy is an American thriller directed by Shintaro Shimosawa, the producer of The Grudge. It was released in Italy on June 15 and in the cast are Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins both won the Oscar and this is their first film together. The original title of the film is Misconduct - "Conspiracy" there we invented us in Italy - and talks about Ben Cahill, an ambitious young lawyer played by Josh Duhamel, who is in the midst of a struggle between a prominent lawyer (Pacino) and the leader of a corrupt pharmaceutical company (Hopkins). Cahill gets the incriminating documents to the pharmaceutical company and speaks to the character played by Pacino. Bad things happen and Cahill must find out the truth or lose everything he has. It looks nice. According to virtually all written reviews about the movie, it is not.In his early days in Italian Conspiracy - The conspiracy was among the five most popular films and grossed more than 50 thousand euro: a fair result, considering that it is the weekly day of June. And it is a better result than what the film has had in the US, where it grossed around 24 thousand dollars, and especially in the UK, where in its first weekend in theaters - one in which the films are usually most their collections - has grossed nearly 100 pounds (125 euro). There was a second weekend because the film was withdrawn from sale. Conspiracy - Conspiracy has cost around 10 million euro; Variety wrote that was screened in five British films and in each of them received about 25 euro: it means that on average the film has been seen by 4-5 people in each UK cinemas where it was shown. Frank Scheck of The Hollywood Reporter wrote that Conspiracy - The conspiracy is "a predictable and forgettable film" and that the great days of Hopkins and Pacino are according to him long gone. Stephen Holden of The New York Times was more lenient with Pacino and Hopkins - "go to their usual pace" and one wonders how they were deceived to get them to act in the film - but is equally ruthless with the film, which is "made by a director and the writers who usually worked in low-budget horror movie "and it shows," is ridiculously clumsy, mounted in a senseless, incomprehensible, no suspense, is a film in which one of the bad guys continually invests people with a motorcycle". Tim Robey of the Telegraph wrote that Conspiracy - Conspiracy "is the worst movie that Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino have done in their careers": Robey said he had seen the films considered the worst made by the two actors - "I saw Instinct - Instinct primordial, Jack and Jill, 88 minutes, and Premonitions The rite and none of these is a film that I would like to have seen "- but no one is still able to gamble with conspiracy - conspiracy in terms of ugliness. Robey gave the film one star out of five. The same rating given by the Guardian, whose critic Wendy Ide wrote that it is "terrible" and is a big stain on Hopkins curriculum and Pacino. It could be shown in film schools as a practical example of how not to make a film. Every decision is wrong: whether it's the plot, casting, photography, sound and probably even the canteen menus during filming. [...] The director, Shimosawa, is fond of harmful and slow camera movements, which eventually will stop at innocuous things, such as a refrigerator. The soundtrack is thunderously stupid. And the plot is so muddled that one wonders if anyone actually read the script before giving the green light to funding for the film. It does a little 'hard to find but there is also a positive review for Conspiracy - Conspiracy: is written by Chuck Wilson of Village Voice. It's a little 'tangled and sometimes wonder if it's ironic, and perhaps it is: Wilson writes that "it is a pity that the film was snubbed" because the debut of Shimosawa director has a "elegant visual style and a plot full so many and so absurd twists that the film becomes an appreciable melodrama. " Wilson writes that the film "makes us think of Brian De Palma's Carrie Vintage - The look of Satan and Dressed to Kill" and "there are beautiful, long and straight shots in which the camera goes even further than the actors, as if trying another turning point in the plot. " Wilson adds that all this might seem like something that disturbs and confuses, it is not: "It is talented," and the director "should start organizing meetings for his next film." The only place they seem to agree with Wilson is South Korea, where Conspiracy - Conspiracy grossed just under a million Euros.

Well,what can I say.What appealed me to Misconduct is that it will be the first film that I would be seeing Al Pacino and Anthony Hopkins together in the same movie.Josh Duhamel stars in it with Pacino and Hopkins taking supporting roles.It tells a story of a lawyer who is caught up in a struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive,Arthur Denning and his firm's partner,Charles Abrams.Alice Eve,Malin Åkerman,South Korean star Byung-hun Lee,Julia Stiles and Glen Powell completes the cast.The movie may be considered dated and dull.The case presented in the plot are familiar themes of movies of the same nature that were shown back in the 90's.It was only nice to see Pacino and Hopkins together although there is nothing extra-ordinary about their performances as they are simply on their familiar routine as far as they are concerned as compared to other movies I have seen them before.If you want to see them together,then Misconduct is the movie for you.