Longtime friends Ronny and Nick are partners in an auto-design firm. They are hard at work on a presentation for a dream project that would really launch their company. Then Ronny spots Nick's wife out with another man, and in the process of investigating the possible affair, he learns that Nick has a few secrets of his own. As the presentation nears, Ronny agonizes over what might happen if the truth gets out.
The filmmakers just don't know what to do about the ladies.
– Lisa Schwarzbaum,
Entertainment Weekly,
15 Jan 2011
rotten:
Perhaps the late Blake Edwards could have found a balance between slapstick and psychodrama, but Ron Howard can't get the pacing right, and Allan Loeb's script is even wordier than the one he wrote for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.
– David Edelstein,
New York Magazine/Vulture,
18 Jan 2011
rotten:
It lacks faith in its story, characters and audience.
– Ben Walters,
Time Out,
18 Jan 2011
fresh:
Who ever thought that Ron Howard could make a cult film? This movie is a mess, but it's an intelligent and affecting mess.
– David Denby,
New Yorker,
24 Jan 2011
rotten:
As cumbersome and drawn out as a slowly deflating tire, this cinematic collision between Vaughn's celebrated funny-surly persona and Howard's earnest pedigree is a bore -- and a serious miscalculation.