Highest Rated Review by the Community
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Sep 15 '09
Pros: acting, script, pace, flow
Cons: mis-classified as a comedy
Summary: Just watch the feeds from Twitter or on Facebook from women. It seems that almost daily there are posts lamenting or lambasting the opposite sex for transgressions real and imagined, major and miniscule. The battle of the sexes has been going ...
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Feb 07 '04
Pros: A Harrowing, Complex Film from Neil LaBute.
Cons: The Film Will Leave You with a Very Discomforting Feel at the End.
Summary: The complexity nature between men and women are very troubling, especially when it comes to the subject of who is more superior which ends up becoming an endless argument over nothing. Sure, some women aren’t great human beings and men aren’t ...
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May 05 '03
Pros: Stacy Edwards, Matt Malloy, and Aaron Eckhart were fantastic.
Cons: Some of the scenes were disturbing.
Summary: Director Neil Le Bute did a good job in directing this movie; although, some of the scenes were disturbing.
This movie was made in 1997 and this is my first time watching this after learning from an internet service board member who was...
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Mar 16 '02
Pros: Stacy Edward's acting, good production values on a tiny budget
Cons: The storyline
Summary: IN THE COMPANY OF MEN is rated R for "emotional abuse". I've never seen that explanation given for another movie. But here it was well-deserved. The movie brags about being controversial ... it certainly is, if you use the word "controversial" to...
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Oct 23 '01
Pros: Acerbic, disturbing, unexpectedly dark comedy. Eckhart, Malloy, and Edwards
Cons: A bit heavy and too realistic to leave as superficial comedy
Summary: In one of the most controversial films of the previous decade , Neil LaBute's first film In the Company of Men (1997) will leave you shaken, because it's acerbic wit cuts a little close to the truth. It is not a film that will make you smile in...
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Aug 13 '01
Pros: Great screenplay that is not concerned with popularity in true indie film form.
Cons: Will not impress if you seek the polished glossy look of big budget production.
Summary: I love this independent film about two executives on a business trip for six weeks. They each have a history of bad experiences with women, and on the way out of town they hatch a plan to get back at women. The decide to pick a woman and compete for her...
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Mar 27 '01
Pros: Great Acting; Leaves certain things unsaid and ambiguous very nicely
Cons: Can be superficially dismissed as too vicious and black a satire too easily
Summary: Why is Chad so frightening? Because Society is full of Chads. Around every corner there is some version of Chad: a cruel, unscrupulous, good-looking, highly intelligent person along his lines, who will not only NOT get what's coming to him, but through...
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Feb 26 '01
Pros: Great script and performance by Aaron Eckhart, and a tough subject tackled well
Cons: A few scenes seem underdeveloped, and the final scene is a bit incongruous.
Summary: All of us have a dark side, some greater than others. Some things we’ve done in our lives – from the way we’ve treated girlfriends or boyfriends, to ugly thoughts that flash through our brains before we can stop them – attest to this.
Of...
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Jan 20 '01
Pros: Enthralling treatment of contemporary gender relations and male angst
Cons: Points may seem obvious to some viewers
Summary: The 1997 film In the Company of Men was a bit of a sleeper. Some critics raved about it, and it even won awards at the Sundance and Cannes film festivals. Some others in the public eye fretted over how horrible its characters were and what it...
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Oct 23 '00
Pros: Very well-acted, dazzlingly well-written dialogue
Cons: If you're male: "We make me sick!!!"
Summary: I do find it necessary to begin this review by saying that I strongly feel this film to be about the company and the conduct of STRAIGHT men. As a gay man, I have never known another gay man to be this coldly manipulative, this dispassionate...
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Sep 09 '00
Pros: Strangely beautiful, and emotionally crushing
Cons: Dark
Summary: In the Company of Men, written and directed by Neil Labute, is a dark film. It is a story of rage, vitriol, venom, hate and misogyny. It is also very compelling, and in a strange way beautiful to watch.
The story follows Chad (Aaron...
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Aug 19 '00
Pros: Brilliant, well acted and well directed movie
Cons: The balls scene might not have been necessary
Summary: I made th mistake of seeing Your Friends and Neighbors before seeing this movie. I say that because I came into Neil La Bute's first film with a negative mindset and thought I was in for unbridled misogyny. Your Friends and Neighbors was pretty bad ,but...
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Jun 30 '00
Pros: Chilling; Totally Real
Cons: May Leave You Feeling Empty
Summary: Neil La Bute doesn't want to make movies. He wants to make something we've never seen before. He accomplishes it with "In the Company of Men." In subject matter and execution it is striking departure from everything we have seen and it is an...
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Jun 22 '00
Pros: Great characters, great story (from start to finish)
Cons: Many people read the plot outline and start out biased
Summary: It's the old cliche about a gruesome accident--you want to turn away, but you actually feel a stronger urge to look. If this really wasn't human nature, why do we have so many traffic tie-ups because drivers are rubbernecking the scene or voyeuristic tv...
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Jun 21 '00
Pros: Fine performances, an ingenious screenplay; strange, effective music and sound effects.
Cons: A distant camera, shallow story and lack of emotional warmth destroy the film.
Summary: I feel like the man who stepped in a particularly nasty kind of quicksand, thinking it was butterscotch pudding. When I was asked to read a couple of reviews of IN THE COMPANY OF MEN, I had not seen it; I did not intend to see it. In the sorry...
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