Glengarry Glen Ross

There is probably only a small percentage of people in the world who'd watch a film about a group of sleezy real-estate agents. However if those sleezy, a-hole real-estate agents were played by names such as Pacino, Lemmon, Harris and Arkin then it actually would become something of interest. The portrayal of of the characters is brilliant and the dialogue is the best out there, and considering you have some real heavyweights on screen delivering the dialogue, there is no doubt that this film is a top quality black-comedy picture.

This movie had me on my own phone for half its runtime—an achievement, given it's only just over half as long as _The Wolf of Wall Street_ (2013), which I watched yesterday, comments on which drew comparisons to this film. While I didn't **love** _Wolf_, it was at least more interesting than _Glengarry_. My boredom was quite unexpected, because on the surface this seems like it should be similar to other films I _did_ like, such as _12 Angry Men_ (1957) or _The Man from Earth_ (2007)—both of which also take place almost entirely in a single room and tell a story through dialogue with minimal action. The problem with _Glengarry_, I think, is that every single character in the office is indistinguishable from the others. While I thought _Wolf_ ran quite a bit longer than it needed to, its characters each distinguished themselves from their officemates. _Glengarry_'s all sound the same. For such a star-studded cast as this, the same-y characterizations were a real surprise. I admit I space(y)d out for a while in the middle, because there are only so many variations on "These leads are crap!" one can take.