Spoilers ahoy!
Most of the problems with this movie have to do with Joe Ross's monumental gullibility. If he's not used to having women drool over him (and there's no reason he would be), he'd be a fool to take Susan's behavior at face value. His quickly becoming chums with Dell is hard to fathom. And above all, instead of bringing a reasonably authentic-looking copy (of no real value, of course) of The Process with him on the sting, he goes for a stroll in the park (literally) with the real thing. This is the one guy in NYC who would buy that swampland in Florida from you, and thank you for it too.
There are a number of other hard-to-believe twists and plot holes, some of them mentioned by others here. The ending is really quite difficult to swallow. Deus ex touristica? On the positive side, some of the tricks sprung were rather slick. But they can't make up the deficit.
Too bad Mamet didn't spend more time massaging the plot, it could have been much better.
6/10
Most of the problems with this movie have to do with Joe Ross's monumental gullibility. If he's not used to having women drool over him (and there's no reason he would be), he'd be a fool to take Susan's behavior at face value. His quickly becoming chums with Dell is hard to fathom. And above all, instead of bringing a reasonably authentic-looking copy (of no real value, of course) of The Process with him on the sting, he goes for a stroll in the park (literally) with the real thing. This is the one guy in NYC who would buy that swampland in Florida from you, and thank you for it too.
There are a number of other hard-to-believe twists and plot holes, some of them mentioned by others here. The ending is really quite difficult to swallow. Deus ex touristica? On the positive side, some of the tricks sprung were rather slick. But they can't make up the deficit.
Too bad Mamet didn't spend more time massaging the plot, it could have been much better.
6/10