Boiler Room

New Line Home Video - New Line Home Video

Release date: 2000-07-11
DVD
Director:Ben Younger
Actors: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan

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Right off - this is one of Giovanni Ribisi's best performances. It's compelling but we never really feel the heat of the Boiler Room. The Danger. The Action. Ben Affleck is extremely good but brief in this - one of his forgotten performances. Everything else about the movie has been said here. More sex, scandal and intrigue would've elevated this way above. EXTRAS: The "original ending" is actually a lot more artful and smarter than the one we get in the final cut. Overall, worth comparing to Wall Street? No. Worth watching? Yes.

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My sister often rants and raves about the greatness of this movie when I'm around her. Her obvious bias to the hotness that is Vin Diesel clearly distorts her opinion of this movie, but I must say that after actually giving it a try, there are moments in this movie that work extremely well, and when it's all said and done it's actually a pretty decent movie.

The film revolves around college dropout Seth Davis who is constantly trying to get out from under his fathers disapproval. Dropping out of college and running and illegal casino out of his apartment isn't the right way to go about earning his affections, but Seth doesn't seem to understand that. When a chance meeting with stock broker Greg Weinstein gets Seth's appetite wet for the big bucks to be had with this legit line of work he decides that this may be just what he needs to get his father to forgive him, and be proud of him. It appears that Seth has a knack for this business. Before long he's become a selling machine and is on his way to making his first million. But then he notices something that's just not right, and after doing a little digging he realizes that this legit gig may not be all that legit after all.

Giovanni Ribisi is one of those actors I really wish would break out in a huge way. I've always really liked him, and I feel that given the right role he could land in awards territory. His performance here is strong; in fact it would be golden if it weren't muddled by some poorly scripted areas. Scenes where he's `selling' are flawless; yet when he's interacting with his father it becomes a little sappy and overly clichéd. His big `crying' scene comes off forced and it just takes away from the film in my opinion. It's in stark contrast to the `relationship' scene at the diner, which is in my opinion one of the best scenes in the film; go figure.

Vin Diesel soars here. His performance as Chris Varick, the broker who takes Seth under his wing, is remarkably flawless. Nia Long is beautiful and graceful yet sorely underused here. I with they would have given her something more to do. Ron Rifkin is believable as Seth's domineering father even if I never could begin to `like' his character.

And I'll just say it now; I thought Ben Affleck was the worst thing about this movie.

What makes `Boiler Room' so poignant is that is exposes the way that greed can ravage anyone. It's not the type of film you expect to be deep or meaningful but when the credits start to roll you realize that this movie represents a growing problem in Corporate-America. The careless and apathetic attitude of most all the characters is sadly not exaggerated. As much as you want to just slap these characters upside the head for their selfish and horrendous actions you can't help but see a little bit of them inside yourself. What we also get to see is that no one is as innocent as they appear to be. Even if one is morally just it doesn't make them ethically just. Look at the comparisons between Seth and his father. Seth may not do everything up to the high moral code his father follows but he appears to have a genuine care for other people whereas his father, self-righteous and on his high horse uses that moral ruler as an iron fist that crushes his relationship ("what relationship?") with his son.

In the end I enjoyed `Boiler Room'. It's not brilliant and it is predictable, but it works for the most part. It could have been tweaked a bit, but what movie couldn't use a little tweaking? Watch it to see Diesel out perform his co-stars and prove he's more than one big muscle and watch it to see the unwavering potential hidden behind Giovanni Ribisi's stutter. It's not as powerful as `Wall Street' but it doesn't need to be.

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Boiler Room in my opinion is like a twenty first century Wall Street. Giovanni Ribbisi is in his Charlie Sheen mood in the lead role while in a small part Ben Affleck is kind of like the Micheal Douglas character. Vin Diesel gave one of his first lead hollywood dramtaic performances roles in this movie and I wish he would return to those. Also look for the sexy Nia Long as Ribbisi's love interest . A great debut from director Ben Younger who needs to be given more work in Hollywood.

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