As two warring media moguls grapple for ownership of a coveted professional football team, they use the newspapers, magazines and television stations they own to destroy each other's reputations.
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Take dozens of characters with zero development. Now, make them all unlikable and downright boring. Next, be sure they act like each and every one is reading cue cards to be certain all of the cardboard performances appear the same. The script should look as if it was put through a blender, and then randomly presented. And the most unbelievable insult to the poor audience is that all of this preposterous, backstabbing nonsense, is over ownership of a football team? That is "Weapons of Mass Distraction", a simply awful film.. Ben Kingsley, Gabriel Byrne, Mimi Rogers, Illeana Dougles, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul Mazursky, and Kathy Baker, all appear in this tiresome, shameful mess. - MERK
Insomnia was acting up late one night and I started channel surfing and happened on this flick on Cinemax ... there was only about thirty minutes left of the movie but even at that point it SUCKED me right in.It's a great flick to watch on a Sunday afternoon - watch it closely. Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsley are excellent. I think this was the first movie I saw Jason Lee appear in.The multiple stories coinciding into one single story of rich scumbags tearing into other's lives for their own gain.Illeana Douglas's character (and her husband) ... their story ... the secret histories of the rich scumbags ... a lot going on in this movie ...HIGHLY recommend it.
I must be real stupid. This movie was too deep for me. I couldn't figure out what was going on for most of the time. For example, why did that guy jump off the roof and kill himself at the end? What was the point of that parallel story about the out of work guy who kills a bus load of school kids? why did the son's helicopter have to fall and put him into a coma? what is it with this Cricket girl? i was actually quite engrossed towards the end because i thought the movie would reveal itself to me and i'd get the answers to all my questions, but alas, it didn't. i guess i'll have to spend many more years researching on IMDb before i'm ready for a movie of this caliber.
A great story about the "silent" (if you count out the use of their media) attacks that two television tycoons carry on each other; all to determine who will be the owner of an important football team. While the two are "having fun" in destroying one another, the middle class is living through (and watching) the consequences.It deserves at least 7 out of 10.