Excellent performances from Miles Teller and Jonah Hill bring genuine laughs to this arms-dealing comedy.
The problem is that the material is too sketchy to support such a vision.
Todd Phillips’ excitable real-life story of two twentysomething dudes keeps telling us how bad arms dealing is but how cool they are.
There are some entertaining moments but little attempt to address the easily abandoned moral values of a venal duo who got rich at the expense of other people’s suffering.
The film is too in love with the characters’ frat-boys-on-the-make swagger to be anything other than callow.
Buoyed by riveting lead performances, and driven by a compelling real-life story, this is proof that Phillips can handle grown-up material. All without a naked Ken Jeong.
This tale of twentysomething arms dealers can’t quite match its star’s tremendous performance.
Hard to imagine a less imaginative rendering of this story.
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