khanobaid This movie is really stupid. The cast is too good to be in a movie that has a script like this. The script also rubs off on the acting which is below par. Plot has a lot of holes in it and trying to make it mystery is a very stupid thing. My advice is not to waste your time on a movie as bad as this. Don't look at the cast, they can't make script better.

fredtee WHAT A MESS. The plot made no sense, the scenes were incomplete, there was little continuity, the dialog was written by an eighth grader.There were so many technical flaws that it boggles the mind these did not get fixed. Just a few out of a thousand: a bunch of cops standing around silently with loaded weapons waiting for a conversation in a restaurant to end; cops entering a home but not guarding the exit through a bathroom window; the hero patching up a very large bleeding cut across his stomach with superglue; the hero and his wife each killed two people but walk happily into the sunset at the end of the movie. How could anyone in his right mind invest $-millions to make this trash.Getting parts in Hollywood must be getting hard to come by, but actors like Hopkins and Pacino don't come cheap. Truth be told, the only reason to see this movie is to watch Pacino and Hopkins. You can give these veterans absolute gibberish to say and do (as in this movie), and they still manage to make it interesting. This was released as VOD to Netflix...shame on Netflix.

robin-benson I was initially drawn to this movie, probably like others, because it had two professionals in it, Hopkins and Pacino but strip them out and it's just a slick TV movie. The brief synopsis describing the plot, big business and corruption also intrigued me, maybe it would be a sort of carefully crafted plot, the sort John Grisham would deliver. It all turned to cake though. Josh Duhamel's version of a legal eagle soon got bogged down in emotional entanglements rather than the big business story line.Hopkins and Pacino hadn't too much time on screen but even these few minutes showed up the rather wooden acting of the much younger cast, especially the female leads: Alice Eve; Malin Akerman; Julia Stiles. They just seemed deliver their lines in a cartoon style of moving lips and little else.Some of the camera work was interesting but several jump cuts were jarring (was the movie cut down from a much longer version?) I expect they made sense to director Shimosawa but not to me. The unfolding story chucked in various surprise twists with the last few minutes delivering a completely unknown surprise, I didn't see any clues to indicate this was how the movie would end.Judging by the reviews here and on Amazon this seems a movie you can safely miss.

petra_ste Misconduct is the most disappointing type of drama/thriller, the one which seems kind of watchable for thirty minutes or so and then, twist after twist, turns into a moronic potboiler.Lawyer Ben (Josh Duhamel), whose marriage with Charlotte (Alice Eve) has seen better days, meets old flame Emily (Malin Akerman), who teases him into rekindling a relationship and at the same time turns out to be the current girlfriend of rich executive Denning (Anthony Hopkins), against whom Ben's firm, led by Abrams (Al Pacino), has clashed before. Emily shows Ben incriminating data from Denning's personal files, but is then abducted... or is she? And that's just the beginning of a series of labyrinthine, increasingly silly events.The movie is a ball of noir tropes crumpled together, like a dead-serious version of The Big Lebowski, with femme fatales, trophy partners of smug millionaires, fake kidnappings, mysterious henchmen and a befuddled protagonist stumbling into a string of red herrings and non-sequiturs. Unlike the Coens' sharp, hilarious classic, Misconduct oozes stupidity from every frame.Duhamel portrays his amoral lawyer doing an effective "Timothy Olyphant passing a kidney stone" impression - at least I suppose that was the intended goal. Byung-hun Lee plays the world's least proficient hit-man, one who attacks his victims by punching them while riding a motorcycle and yet fails to kill someone tied to a chair.Former titans Hopkins and Pacino probably high-fived between takes at the thought of the umpteenth easy paycheck. Although Pacino does get to utter the line I put in the review title, which serves as a nice meta commentary on the last part of his career.Poor Alice Eve is uncannily stiff and dead-eyed - not the world's greatest actress to begin with, she gets saddled with an absurd character. Also, casting lookalikes Eve and Akerman (both statuesque, clear-eyed, round-faced, long-haired blondes in their mid-thirties) as, respectively, the protagonist's spouse and potential lover, was an idiotic choice. You want COMPLETELY DIFFERENT TYPES for the contrasting roles of the Wife and the Temptress (think Emily Mortimer/Scarlett Johansson in Match Point), not clones.Add Julia Stiles (in a minor part as a detective) as another long-haired blonde of similar age and facial structure, and this is starting to look like The Stepford Wives.5/10