The Big Kahuna | Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito

The Big Kahuna | Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito | A Big Suprise- Maybe the best movie of 2000!

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The Big Kahuna

	The Big Kahuna Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito Lions Gate Films Home Entertainment, 2003 average customer review:based on 70 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The Big Picture

This film poses a unique scenario: three salesmen with different backgrounds, philosophies, and values,trying to sell an industrial lubricant to the infamous, yet never seen Mr.Fuller. The storyline is simple and concise. Based on a play by Roger Rueff, The Big Kahuna presents the audience with various moral, ethical, and religious contradictions. The youthful and somewhat naive character played by Peter Facinelli has strong religious convictions, thus making himself an easy target for the older, satirical character played by Kevin Spacey. The verbal sparring Spacey and Facinelli engage in concerning the ethics of religion and salemanship is thought-provoking. The debate deals with "selling religion" and the importance of distinguishing between making a sales pitch for a religion, in this case Christianity, and simply sharing thoughts and personal philosophies. This movie questioned the motive behind the everyday things we do and say and how that motive influences others. It forces viewers to reevaluate their stance on religion, if any, and how they share personal views with others.

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A Big Suprise- Maybe the best movie of 2000!

This movie is good. Watch it and take notes. Much thanks to Mr. Spacey for helping this story to get filmed (He was co-producer i believe). Much thanks to HBO for airing this film which I would've probably never seen had they not aired it. You would've figured that this movie would have had a chance at reaching an audience being that it was released just weeks after Spacey had won the Oscar. But sadly, people aren't used to 90 minutes+ of 3 guys talking in a hotel. This movie could possibly go out of print and virtually disappear due to lack of exposure. Danny Devito and Kevin are great together. Maybe in the future they could pair up again, make another 4 star movie, and show everyone what they were missing with this movie.

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honost in a much bigger sence

this motion picture fits in my definition of "keepnig in mind a thought for the next morning". it is simple in structure, selective in script and amazing regarding actors faces appearance. i have reconsidered ranking Spacey in my list of best actors by including him in a new list called "best acting selectors".

Thought-provoking film plays with the viewer's expectations

A thought-provoking film about the nature of humans to proselytize to one another. The film starts out like "Death of a Salesman" with Kevin Spacey as Willie Loman teaching a young Biff-like protege the importance of ingratiatory salesmanship. But then it takes off unexpectedly on a spiritual tangent (that seemed more like an agenda at first) before finishing up like "The Rapture" as a cautionary tale about the dangers of over-zealousness and the intransigence of one's belief system. The similarities between the religion of Christ and the reverence for Mammon was already fascinating (and apparent) without Devito's superfluous summarizing monologue. The claustrophobic setting reveals the film's origin as a stageplay but that didn't bother me because these three guys don't seem like the types who would want to grab a breath of fresh air in Wichita, KS anyway. Highlights for me were the performances of Spacey and Devito and their rendering of the dialogue, which comes close to emulating Mamet's in regards to the sentiments but misses the mark in regards to rhythm and the use of the vernacular.

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NOT FOR ANY TASTE, BUT VERY GOOD

Spacey acts brilliantly as always. Amazing. The dialogues are clever and important. But one cannot leave behind the plain fact that sometimes the story may get a little bit boring, because there isn't exactly a history, juss the perception of a history. Anyway, the movie keeps you at the edge of your seat watching the dialogues between Spacey and De Vito ( and the new boy ).

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