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The Prime Gig |
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The Prime Gig  Rating: Rating:  - Plot could be better, liked the actorsVisually and structurally, I liked this film...until it unraveled. Didn't make sense at the end, Caitlin really liked Penny and you could tell she felt sad for what she was about to do when she made him take some money their last night. Big question: did she just take his money to give it to Kelly and stay with him or to make her break from Kelly when she knew it was closing it down and moving on? Also couldn't figure out who this disabled guy was he took so much guff from until I googled and found out it was his brother. Loved the actors, but plot could definitely been better. Rating:  - Earns the rite to find itself in Walmart's bargain film bin. I almost cared about this movie. Almost. I mean, you can't go wrong with Vince Vaughn and Ed Harris, right? Wrong. The Prime Gig offers slices of entertainment that keep you modestly plugged into the movie, but ultimately, those slices are not enough to suffice. Characters come and go without us caring, and the main characters look as bored as we do. Vaughn plays a conman who goes to work for a master con-artist and ultimately meets his match. There's some attempts to make us care along the way, and some dialogue that tries to assert itself, but at the end of the day, we still don't care and strike 'The Prime Gig' from the first cut at the "Could Have Been a Cool Movie" tryouts. Rating: - This Con's on YouThere are certainly worse ways to spend 93 minutes -- just check out your local multiplex. Shellgames are never boring, and the ensemble cast is great (as they nearly always tend to be, in con movies). But, as others have pointed out, this one has more holes in it than a shower head. Shares in a gold mine? Pur-lease! Where is any telemarketer supposed to find marks dumb enough to buy those? Why would any telemarketer worth his salt waste his time trying? And, given that the Vince Vaughan character makes it quite clear he's only marrying the girl to help her get a green card (and therefore presumably wouldn't have dreamed of putting his money in a joint account and giving her sole signature over it), what bank would be inept enough to let her clean out his account just because she could show she was his wife? Rating:  - An adrenaline packed, emotionally charged story about sales in USATHE PRIME GIG, showcasing the acting talent of veteran actors Vince Vaughn, the lovely Julia Ormond, and the charismatic, head honcho Ed Harris, is more than just a professionally made movie. It's an adrenaline packed, emotionally charged story that carries viewers, on a unique experience or rollercoaster over more than 90 mins. Vaughn reprises, in part, an aspect of his humanity, similar to to one seen inthe other movie LOCUST, (in which he interacted with a disabled character called FLYBOY ). He thereby demonstrates his psychological need to come to the assistance of his disabled friend who, as said, has difficulty suceeding in life and supporting himself,as a brother's keeper. This clearly lends credibility to his role, by making Penny multi-dimensional, not only a workoholic salesman. Viewers are treated to a perfect synchronicity between real situations and the soundtrack, not unlike was the case elsewhere in BoilerRoom, (that also had a great soundtrack accompanying the story.) This clearly opens up the sheer humanity of the sales persons, who must focus on reaping their commissions surrounding a gold mining stock promotion in a boiler room in an undisclosed secret location, to regulatory authorities. This contrasts, in other words, with the stereotype of sales as a job, often seen as dehumanizing to those who participate in it, from the pressure in meeting the sales numbers, on time, and in full. Regarding the selling aspect, PRIME GIG is actually pretty realistic, showing there's more than one way to skin a cat, meaning, different sales people approach sales prospects with different techniques, although they share a common objective, "to kill, or fill" the sales propspect. We see a couple of CD's containing "leads", headsets, dialers, a high pressure environment, a sales board, competition between reps for the most number of sales, commission bonuses, euphoria, depression, the illusion of reps chasing a rainbow, in the job they accepted, as did the prospects by accepting some sales for some products, that even the salespeople didn't know was a con. The movie has a dramatic, quick ending, bringing to light another scourge of modern society, the mortgage fraud. Clearly, viewers won't be able to say enough about the acting skills of Vaughn, Ed Harris, and Ormond as their intensity on screen, is simply unbeatable. |
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