a review of 大亨游戏

Ever since I saw Alec Baldwin's classic speech scene from Glengarry Glen Ross on TV a number of years ago, I was interested to see the rest of the film, and in 2018 it finally happened. It turned out that the classic speech scene is situated at the beginning of the film, and subsequently I became bored by the constant sales business related blabber. Sometimes you've got a gut feeling that a film isn't going to work out for you, so I stopped it not long after Baldwin's speech. Even Baldwin's speech had become romanticized in my memory, as seeing it again made me realize that Baldwin is predominantly bullying everyone in the room in stead of teaching them something substantial. Maybe I really missed out on something by stopping the film in an early stage, but it all felt too much like a business-themed stage play converted to a film, which is not my cup o' tea.