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Entertaining from beginning to end, it maintains the spirit of the franchise while establishing it's own seal with a fun cast

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

I love films like this. Limited, resourceful, and yet makes mountains out of molehills. I also love David Mamet and I could listen to his expert dialouge for hours on end. So how could I not love this film? Sure if you dissect it, it has some issues, but I can't help but love everything it does. The movie only has three characters. Dustin Hoffman is Teach, a bitter and cynical man whose friend is Don, played by Dennis Franz. Don owns a junk shop and also looks out for Bob, a street kid with a lot of issues. When Teach and Don learn that they might have been jipped out of some very valuable coins they decide they're going to go steal the coins back. The plan reveals the dark inner turmoil the three characters feel and it is ultimately their quest to find meaning and purpose in a world that has hung them out to dry. It's a story of futile human desperation delivered through snappy and quick witted dialouge that I found fascinating.It's imperative to mention that this film is only dialouge. There is no action, no special effects, and not even a change in scenery. I might be crazy for saying this, but I loved it. It was an extremely interesting watch to see what could be accomplished on an existential level with so little tangible material. The film was originally a stage play written by David Mamet that he adapted into a screenplay with little to no changes in his near perfect dialouge. Because of the little change in location and the unusually small cast of three I get the feeling the film works better as a stage play, but having never seen the stage version, the movie was a great watch unto itself. Everything is kept very simple and all of the focus was on the actors and the dialouge they delivered making the movie very unconventional, so much to the point where it doesn't really feel like a movie. But this uniqueness is what I enjoyed so much about the film, just out of personal love for the strange and different.Now I will admit that if the film had not had good actors to back up Mamet's sharp edged dialouge, American Buffalo would have been an awful, dreary, and pathetically boring film. But the three main, and only, actors in the film keep it lively and interesting from start to finish. Hoffman and Franz work together as a perfect duo and their contrast in characteristic give the film a lot of its deep perplexity on the human condition. Nelson isn't in the movie as much as Hoffman and Franz, but when he is present he does a great job, and his character is very important to the progression of the story. The actors do a lot of justice to the ingenious dialouge of this film.There isn't much more to say about American Buffalo. There isn't a whole lot to the film, but what elements it does possess are fantastic. The dialouge and acting is brilliant, and there isn't much more to the movie. I honestly loved how different of a movie experience this was, and can give the movie nothing but props for making me think and delivering to me such a unique experience.

"American Buffalo" is definitely not a movie for everyone. A downer in every sense, it portrays three pitiful characters with nowhere to go in life. I guess that overall, there's little to be said about the movie. It's little more than a way to pass time. The whole thing has the distinct feel of a play (it all happens pretty much in one room), but Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz and Sean Nelson have little to do here. Still, it might make you ponder your own direction in life.I have to wonder about that coin featuring the buffalo. When you think about it, that coin went the way of the buffalo. Maybe I'm the only person who notices that.

I'm more than surprised that this is a much ignored movie in the internet, underrated maybe?...I finished seeing it and I was mixed with emotions, with possibilities that could have started at any time in the movie so I watched it again right there.Marvelous dialogs, I think this is a Mamet and Hoffman thing. But I couldn't find more feedback on the internet about the plot and the outcomes. But be careful because I read some comments that were too much sure about it.I believe this is what David Mamet's genius is about. And people with a lot of talent putting it in front of you.

Chock Full o' remarkably well acted, meat and potatoes' dialog,American Buffalo renders shades of , "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest," in a satirical Forum. As the two main characters are masterfully fleshed out by Franz and Hoffman. This dialog is so tight that I manage to arm My own verbal arsenal with, what I deem as, "Social Pet Phrase Ammunition", in a single viewing! To draw on a few key points, has me doubled over with side-splitting laughter! Please pardon my allusion, yet you must see it - To relate. Further more you can set your Wrist Watch to the remarkable timing, captured on screen, of this Rare Duo's, seemingly natural, performance. Don't get me wrong, in terms of there being an absence of opposing thematic content towards plot. The acting definitely saves the movie. Although, it's probably not for your average movie goer. It's become one of my top 20 "Dialog driven" classical winners!This is a fine example of, "You don't need a billion-dollar budget to make a quality Motion Picture".