An average movie

Honestly, I had no idea what to expect from this flick but since I have a weak spot for Dustin Hoffman, I thought I might as well give it a try. Basically, it is one of his more obscure movies, apparently not even 10 people have seen it here on Listal and it wasn’t really good, I’m afraid. At first, when I realized it was an adaptation of a play written by David Mamet, I got pretty intrigued but I seriously had a hard time to care about the whole thing. Indeed, it is just about two losers who spend a whole day in a junk shop, arguing about some pathetic heist and, from time to time, you have a black kid showing up. I don’t make it sound really exciting and, indeed, it wasn’t. I mean, it wasn’t bad either, Dustin Hoffman is a fine actor and delivered a decent performance and the dialogs written by Mamet were quite entertaining but those guys were not really interesting, I would even say that Teach (played by Hoffman) was just terribly obnoxious. I don’t know, the play is apparently a classic (even Al Pacino played Teach for a couple of years) and maybe it wasn’t the right material for a movie adaptation. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it still remains a decent watch and it is worth a look, especially if you like the genre.

6/10