Weapons of Mass Distraction
Weapons of Mass Distraction
R | 17 May 1997 (USA)
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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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Softwing

Most undeservingly overhyped movie of all time??

TaryBiggBall

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

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Sameer Callahan

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

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Celia

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

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merklekranz

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

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jrahn

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.

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jd110

What Robert Altman did for Vietnam with M*A*S*H, Stephen Surjik (director)and Larry Gelbart (writer) do to modern media corporations with Weapons of Mass Distraction.If anyone wants to know how the mega rich owners of big corporations are "screwing the little guy" and getting away with it, then you HAVE to watch this movie. The film uses biting satirical comic writing to deliver its message about how money and media power dominates the political process to the detriment of all but a very few people at the top. Imagine the screenplay being written by Voltaire or Jonathan Swift. Gabriel Byrne and Ben Kingsley's performances as the two greedy media moguls who will do anything, no matter how sleazy or illegal, to get their way, are brilliant. Jeffrey Tambor is fantastic as Byrne's personal assistant whose morals are as ambiguous as his sexuality.A wonderful film, a savage attack on what happens when too much power is vested in the hands of too few. Watch it and wince.

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JKpplger

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.

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