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Robert De Niro, Bruce Willis, Stanley Tucci, John Turturro, Kristen Stewart
Two nail-biting, back-stabbing, roller-coaster weeks in the world of a middle-aged Hollywood producer as he tries to juggle an actual life with an outrageous series of crises in his day job. Ben is be...( read more
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Id: 10944438
Solid black comedy from one of my favourite filmmakers. De Niro is good, Bruce Willis is hilarious, and the rest of the cast performs ably too. Well worth the watch: not great, but far from a letdown. More conceptually funny than laugh-a-minute funny, I really liked it.
Ben: So what'd you think?
Dick Bell: Well it had a lot of good production...I liked the music.
Despite having De Niro turn in a very good performance, along with a few other key characters in this film, the movie is a fairly tame Hollywood satire that doesn't give way to much mo...( read more)
Bit of a letdown perhaps due to marketing. The comic achievements of this film are pushed when its more of a smirking, melancholic view. I think I only laughed out loud twice for the whole film.
Toothless 'The Player' wannabee with nothing very original to say about Hollywood. Some amusing quips get lost in the uneasy mix of caricatures and characters you are meant to care about.
Funny, entertaining, and satisfying. Good acting by Robert De Niro and Kristen Stewart. Hilarious script, good set design, and an interesting story. Definatly a comedy worth watching. 9.6/10
A wonderful idea lost in Hollywood's convention wich is a bit ironic, isn't it?
This was ok, but really wasn?t that good. It just seemed to be an overextended and developed idea looking at the processes and roll coater life of a Hollywood producer.
Vaguely interesting insight, but it seemed more of a struggle and chore to watch than anything else. To be h...( read more)
I don't quite know how to review What Just Happened? It wasn't a film that bored me; but it didn't raise much of a laugh; much thought I basically felt nothing for anything or anyone in this film; as I stated though I was not bored; the film plotted along it told a story, it wrap...( read more)
