Player

Pros: Acting, writing, visuals, cameos
Cons: a bit too far fetched at times.

Robert Altman, who directed The Player, has a history of run-ins with Hollywood studios. Perhaps it should come as no surprise then that a movie that pokes fun at the film industry would be one of his best. In fact, if this was an arguement, he seems to...

Pros: Altman's Direction, Script, Satire, Humor, Editing, Music, & Cast.
Cons: None.

From 1970-1975, Robert Altman was truly one of cinema's most enduring and prolific directors with a style of his own. Known for his improvisational, chaotic directing, his collaboration with actors, and overlapping dialogue. Altman and the films he ...

Pros: Excellent acting - especially Robbins / Hilarious on-target satire / Amazing cameo appearances
Cons: Some inside jokes will go over just about anyone's (include myself) head

If I were a licensed film critic (is there such a thing?), I would lose my all credibility for the following admission: I just saw "The Player" for the first time last night! Go ahead, take me off your trusted list. I do not deserve to be...

Pros: Oustanding acting, cinematic tricks, homages
Cons: None

The Player directed by Robert Altman strives to express to viewers that money is the root of all evil. Griffin Mill is the leader of an evil band of Hollywood cronies, and the viewer gets to play private investigator. This goal is achieved through the ...

Pros: O-so-clever screenplay. Cameos. Robert Altman. Tim Robbins.
Cons: Too clever for it’s own good. Outlandish plot.

Director: Robert Altman Screenwriter: Michael Tolkin Based on Novel: “The Rapture” by Michael Tolkin Score: Thomas Newman Released By: New Line Year Release: 1992 Rated: R (language, nudity) The Player is psychological thriller abo ...

Pros: Intelligent and satirical insider view of Hollywood, some great cameos and hilarious spots, Tim Robbin's acting, Whoopi Goldberg improvisational scenes, Lyle Lovette looking for flies.
Cons: Like any Altman film it can be a little uneven, Not everyone will "get" the insider jokes

While I’ve read plenty about film and get glimpses of the “inside world” of film production from reading Entertainment Weekly and trade journals, gleaning insights from DVD extras, attending screenings to hear the directors talk about their...

Pros: If an actor was born, he (she) is in this movie
Cons: If an actor was born, he (she) is in this movie

The movies reflect our times, and the times then help categorize our movies; if the '70s can be defined as the decade of ("Taxi Driver", "Network", etc,) and the '80s were a 10-year coming-out party for the big blockbuster...

Pros: acting, story, pacing
Cons: nothing

The Player is one of my favorite films about the movie industry. It is a sadistic and sarcastic (and sometimes honest) glimpse into the workings of the machinery behind Hollywood. One of the aspects I find so fascinating about it is that normally for a...

Pros: Good Flick
Cons: Boring beginning

Getting Away With Murder


The movie, The Player, is about a Hollywood writer Griffin Mills (Tim Robbins), who is trying to save his job from a young, handsome, young man named Larry Levy(Peter Gallager). Mills has to come up with a good...

Pros: Great acting and timing, good use of color to set moods
Cons: Bit of a slow start

The Player is a satire on the powerful players of the movie industry. Robert Altman takes on and beautifully illustrates a corrupt community that he, as a director, is a part of.

The opening scene is an 8 minute tracking shot that introduces...

Pros: Scathingly intelligent writing, acting and direction
Cons: Why even try to find one?

Robert Altman had a long and rewarding career in Hollywood (if you forget Popeye), but fell by the wayside in the '80s (if you remember Popeye). 1992's The Player was Altman's revenge on a Hollywood completely controlled by projected grosses and test...

Pros: created extreme thought
Cons: could be more clearer in some parts

I am currently in a college Introduction to Film class. In class we viewed the movie, "The Player", directed by Robert Altman. I found that this movie was very interesting in many different ways along with confusing. I enjoyed this movie...

Pros: Fascinating and disturbing
Cons: Can't find any

Robert Altman's film "The Player" is an unsettling look at how phoney the people behind the silver screen really are. Altman dispels the myth that the film industry is all one big happy family by going so far in the opposite direction of...

Pros: Deep, complex ironies, brilliantly plotted and directed.
Cons: SICK, SICK, SICK! Depressing, distressing and despairing.

"The Player" is a well-crafted piece of cinema, but a disturbing and depressing movie. It has many brilliant aspects of plotting, scripting and directing -- and tells a seamy story of success by corruption in which any character with ethics...

Pros: Original, Fun, Enjoyable
Cons: Slow during some parts

I saw “The Player” in an introduction to film class that I am taking. I thought it was a great movie. I loved that there was so much more going on in the movie than just the obvious story line.

The movie revolves around a Hollywood movie...