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For all the hype it got I was expecting a lot more!

Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

Edmond Burke (William H. Macy) is a tired businessman who visits a Fortune Teller after a tiresome day. She tells him that he's not where he belongs. He leaves his wife. He goes into the night having various adventures in a strip club, a brothel, robbed by three card Monte, pawning his ring for a knife, and stabbing a pimp. He finds waitress Glenna (Julia Stiles) willing to listen. They go back to her apartment and have sex but he ends up killing her. Edmond is arrested and put in prison where his black cellmate rapes him.This David Mamet play gets turned into a movie. The material has a surreal feel. I wonder if the movie should accept that surrealism and expand on it visually. William H. Macy does an intriguing turn. It's not completely convincing. Mamet's writing and Edmond's constant philosophizing leave me intrigued but also wondering what the point is. Maybe the point is not to listen to fortune tellers.

This is a brief review of "Edmond" and "Glengarry Glen Ross", two films written by David Mamet.The lesser of the two, "Edmond" revolves around a businessman (William H. Macy) who has grown tired of the stresses and pressures of modern life. Trapped in an existential rut, and finding no love, purpose or satisfaction at work or at home, he breaks up with his wife and sets off for a night on the town. Here he hopes to hire a prostitute, but things don't go as planned, and pretty soon he's being arrested for a violent murder. The film is remarkably brisk (79 minutes), Mamet obsessed with modern emasculation and violent resentment, but weak direction by Stuart Gordon undermines his screenplay's better qualities.Capitalism as a slow train to hell, "Glangarry Glen Ross" is merely an ensemble version of "Edmond". Here the businessmen are a group of real estate agents who struggle to cope with deadlines and targets. They're fired by their company and given a ruthless ultimatum: sell or you won't be rehired. Eventually the pressure of meeting targets proves too much and one salesman commits a shocking crime.Filled with meaty dialogue and lengthy monologues, "Glengarry" is elevated by several bombastic moments by actors Al Pacino, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin and Jack Lemmon. It's a joy to watch these actors chew scenery, even if the film ultimately amounts to a group of middle class, middle aged men, moaning about the drudgery of their 9 to 5 lives.7.5/10 - Worth one viewing.

I'm a man, so forgive me for saying at the outset that Julia Stiles is simply gorgeous. And spectacularly great in this film.Redbox sent me to this one, right after watching Oleanna. I can't believe I was unaware until now that it was also a Mamet piece. But it makes sense because there is the same thematic notion in so many of his works: a determinism of events, in a given environment and precipitated by circumstance. I am not at all sure that Mamet makes "statements" about social issues. I think he really just creates these fantasies about fate ebellished with the best dialogue imaginable. Like Glengary Glen Ross. Everyman in that play goes where he inevitably must go. And I guess by going along with him, as a spectator, we can fully empathize with him. Surely, at every step, we feel the same affects as does Edmond.Next to Travis Bickle, probably my favorite character in film was the Jack Lemmom real estate salesman. Every bit as tragic as Willy Loman.Edmond is a visceral film too. See for yourself.Did I mention Julia Stiles?

Edmond was an amazing trip through what we humans are truly capable of. The movie is short but brutal ride in one man trying to find him self, and the people he ran over.The racist tones didn't bother me i in fact found it refreshing for a change, as i believe that people should say what they mean. In America we have laws now ruling speech so people don't get their feelings hurt. I believe that everyone has a right not like you, love you, respect you, or even want to be around you. As a black American i find my self thinking the same thing Edmond thought about lazy quick buck people, but of all races though.Edmond's constant complaints about n***rs was just jungle fever in the end, and got to live the dream in as he called it a safe place. Macy's constant telling all the whores their price was too much was funny. This was one of Macy's top performances, and hands down his most intense.The scenes between Stiles and Macy blew me away with the back and forth until she realizes she made a fatal mistake bringing Edmond's out of control butt to her home. I also liked how Edmond wanted a do over at the police station to go back to his wife until the officer asked him why he killed that girl, an question he couldn't answer or seem to show any remorse for.Don't let your kids see this movie this a very thinking adults film very much worth seeing more than once.