
Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby are drugged out geniuses with lots of ideas but they can never seem to get their act together. But when they come up with the idea to create a porn site - and charge for it (the first ever site to do so), their idea may be too lucrative for them to handle. Straight-laced business man, Jack Harris, is brought in to team up with them and turn their profitable idea into a legit business. Making money in the pornography industry is pretty easy, but st... (Full plot summary below)
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Wayne Beering and Buck Dolby are drugged out geniuses with lots of ideas but they can never seem to get their act together. But when they come up with the idea to create a porn site - and charge for it (the first ever site to do so), their idea may be too lucrative for them to handle. Straight-laced business man, Jack Harris, is brought in to team up with them and turn their profitable idea into a legit business. Making money in the pornography industry is pretty easy, but staying true to yourself when surrounded by that much wealth, luxury, sex, crime and temptations, is much harder.
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| ColeSmithey.comCole SmitheyPacked with more voice-over narration than a docent's tour of the Metropolitan Museum, "Middle Men" is formulaic to a fault. |
| BlackFilm.comWilson Morales'Middle Men' may not have the action and slapstick comedy that one expects to see this late in the summer, but the film is filled with zest and actually worth exploring. |
| East Bay ExpressKelly VanceThere's too much Scorsese-izing, and all the characters with the exception of Wilson and Ramsey's illicit lovers look as if they were drawn by a fifteen-year-old. |
| Film Journal InternationalDaniel EaganProfessional fixer tries to protect two creeps who helped develop Internet porn from predatory gangsters and crooks. Mixed-up morality tale should have had more impact. |
| MTVKurt LoderDirector George Gallo embraces the gamey porn scene with gusto: There's oodles of nudity, of course (and lots of over-inflated breastage). |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversRibisi and Macht are sleaze incarnate. James Caan, as a conniving lawyer, and Rade Sherbedgia, as a Russian crime boss, are even more cootified. Best of all is Wilson, digging into his juiciest role in years and putting a human face on this mesmerizing morality tale, a journey into the toxic heart of the American dream. |
| New York PostLou LumenickLuke Wilson, who has appeared in a long run of bad movies, seizes on his juiciest role since "The Royal Tenenbaums" here. |
| USA TodayClaudia PuigThink "Boogie Nights" meets "Casino," though it's not likely to make the lasting impression of either seminal film. |
| MovielineMichelle OrangeWilson's unflappable, deeply sympathetic affect and aging golden-boy visage have a very Jack-like smoothing effect on the story's rough patches. |
| SalonAndrew O'HehirEven as this film unravels into incoherent, self-justifying moral instruction, it never becomes boring to watch. |