Keira Brennan The movie is made so realistic it has a lot of that WoW feeling at the right moments and never tooo over the top. the suspense is done so well and the emotion is felt. Very well put together with the music and all.

Erica Derrick By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Mehdi Hoffman There's a more than satisfactory amount of boom-boom in the movie's trim running time.

Delight Yes, absolutely, there is fun to be had, as well as many, many things to go boom, all amid an atmospheric urban jungle.

tmcdaniel1 This was the most soft-headed piece of nonsense I've seen since the last crappy sci-fi channel movie about giant insects.Lapham is "trite and confused" so the movie follows closely.The problems of the world are described poorly and the solutions are even less clear.At one point we take a ride on a "Magic Bus" that drives from a dirty part of a big city to a "bright sunlit upland" where there are just country fields and wind powered generators.Guess what you dummies. The world is not totally one or the other. It never has been.I doubt that it ever will be.This film also leaves out the millions of people that find happiness in their work or their families and friends or religion.None of the actors in this movie counts their blessings. They are too confused to realize that they actually have some control over their lives.The sub-text seems to be you can't be happy unless you rule...but all the rulers are unhappy as well. WHAT A LOAD OF GARBAGE.Its message is deeply pessimistic and unrealistic. It poorly describes the problems of the world and then offers no comprehensible solution or even encouragement. It is not so much that they get it wrong, its that they just don't make any sense.Tripe, possibly harmful...tripe. Not when the thoughts are presented by 14 year olds smoking their first pot but, when presented by so-called adults...ouch.

bhb0818 I thoroughly enjoyed this film. It really demonstrated how condescending and out of touch the greedy 'Elite' are in this dog-eat-dog world. Lewis Lapham was excellent. This film should be shown on network television or at least cable network so everyone can awaken to answers for their questions about the economy. I especially respected the way it was demonstrated how the average wage earner has difficulty making it in America today. One of the best examples was the food and beverage industry. Americans that serve us food all day long can't make a living wage, even if a couple were to combine their incomes! Now, onto the elite of the elite. Someone needs to make a film about the Rothchild's and the 12 families that run the World Bank and how they rule our American ruling class! Michael Moore may not even have the ball's to make that one!

smookler-2 If you are familiar with the writing of Lewis Lapham you will find him surprisingly gentle in this film. Here he guides two recent Yale graduates trying to resolve whether it it better to be good or to be successful. This premise is used to introduce us to some of the most powerful men in America, to hear what a few of them have to say about the elite of that country and to hear some of them lie about there being no elite. Although we know the graduates are actors speaking Lapham's words, the technique works, because these two young men genuinely represent the newer generation who, faced with the existing state of power, have to decide whether to join the status quo or try to change it. The Washington Post accused the film of being preachy and condescending, but I disagree. In any case if anyone ever earned the right to preach it is Lapham, who has used his own privileged position to check the excesses of his class, rather than to defend them.The news in the movie, that anyone may be invited to join the elite, if it helps the elite retain power; that anyone who wants to fight this had better have a trust fund; should leave us feeling cynical and depressed, but the story is surprisingly charming. Perhaps it is from seeing Pete Seeger, alive and well at 86 still singing for freedom, walking in a country lane, encouraging all of us to tip the balance towards a more decent life for all.

mulletbarber Lapham narrates and guides two young investment banker wannabees through a post-modernist adventure into the private lives and thoughts of some of the America's most interesting and powerful people. If the information that Lapham attempts to distill from this powerful and effective documentary could be related to more people, perhaps the country would be in better shape. The movie is at times sad and frustrating-the nickel and dime singin' working class dignity is a poignant revelation- but overall it is a vision of hope for the future. I am not familiar with Mr. Lapham's political inclinations, but the film achieves a remarkable milestone, clearly identifying problems in contemporary America without assigning blame. The whole thing reminded me of Barak Obama's winning attitude and the hope of an intelligent and bi-partisan, or at least meritocratic solution to the world's toughest problems. The film suffers from a bit too much cuteness, but I have never seen such efficient use interviews with people that really matter. If you are interested in politics,history, or just care a lot about humanity, this is essential viewing.