Director: Adam McKay
The Other Guys's plot revolves peripherally around high finance, and over the credits, there's a lot of animated graphics about Bernie Madoff, Goldman Sachs, and the 'bailout'. Really, The Other Guys? A movie starring 4 top actors plus another ex-top actor, shot in Manhattan, with multiple car chases and egregious product placement - this film can't even pretend it's not part of the System. It cost a fortune to make and its primary goal is to entertain and therefore make a profit.
I don't normally like Will Ferrell, and again here he's hit or miss for me. His best quality as an actor is his blitheness - he acts as though his thoughts and actions are completely normal. Wahlberg plays a terminally angry character, so much so that the movie even comments on one of his shouting episodes. All in all, the film was mildly entertaining, with some decent laughs, but it won't be toppling any corporate power structures anytime soon.
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