Daniel Barnes Dare Daniel Aug 9, 2022 1/5

Joe Eszterhas’ lame, career-killing non-movie is 85 minutes of an over-validated, out-of-touch, inexplicably bitter screenwriter grinding an ax and making O.J. jokes.

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John Hartl Seattle Times Mar 25, 2013 1.5/4

The level of humor could be called sophomoric, but that would insult most sophomores.

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Michael Wilmington Chicago Tribune Mar 25, 2013 1.5/4

A comedy without laughs, an expose without point.

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Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly Sep 7, 2011 F

What turns the witlessness rancid is the way the movie is saturated in the very corruption it thinks it's ridiculing.

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Todd McCarthy Variety Jul 20, 2009

A caustic but under-funny "expose" of the venality of the motion picture business.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum Chicago Reader Jul 20, 2009

If you harbor an interest in watching so-called "industry smarts" autodestruct, this carries a certain morbid appeal, but that's about the extent of it.

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Caffeinated Clint Moviehole Feb 3, 2009 2/5

Not even Stallone and Jackie Chan can save it..

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Jeffrey M. Anderson Combustible Celluloid May 26, 2006 3/4

It's unafraid of the consequences of its existence, and it's brutally nasty , offensive, and abrasive. In other words, the kind of comedy they used to make in the 70's before things became politically correct.

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Chuck O'Leary Fantastica Daily Oct 6, 2005 2/5

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Cole Smithey ColeSmithey.com Sep 14, 2005 0/5

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Emanuel Levy EmanuelLevy.Com Aug 12, 2005 2/5

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Nell Minow Movie Mom Jun 21, 2005 0/5

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Jonathan R. Perry Tyler Morning Telegraph (Texas) Apr 26, 2005 1/5

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Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews Jul 26, 2004 3/10

Skip it.

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Frank Ochieng Movie Eye May 27, 2003 1/5

A desperate and disjointed farce that flops considerably. This satirical sabotage on the moviemaking industry is an incoherent and unfunny abomination

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Susan Tavernetti Palo Alto Weekly May 20, 2003 1/4

This jab at Hollywood seems close in subject matter to another title credited to Alan Smithee, Bloodsucking Pharaohs in Pittsburgh.

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Philip Martin Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Feb 24, 2003 1/5

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Luke Y. Thompson New Times Feb 3, 2003 1/5

Decent idea, extremely lousy execution. More talent has not gone to waste in a long time.

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Brandon Judell Critics Inc./America Online Jan 2, 2003

a film more noteworthy for its title's lack of commas than for any other asset

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Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL) Aug 15, 2002 0/5

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