Having worked in a similar situation for a few months about 10 years ago right out of school it's my opinion this movie is damn close to being dead-on perfect. They have the boiler room down PAT. From the group interview, promises of being rich in no time, the interaction between co-workers, and the phone-sales... un-friggin-believably dead on. To those who think that this doesn't happen, it does. Certainly, 99 out of 100 people hang up but they are going for that one person who is vulnerable, a little greedy, whom they make that rapport with, and buys into their spiel.
The faults of the movie, had they fixed them - would have made this movie a classic. 1) Ribisi can't act. When he cries at the seminal moment and (later) when he is looking at his father after the arrest - its neither believable nor do you have any emotion towards him. 2) You can't 'back up your C drive onto a floppy'. This F-Up will be remembered like an apple powerbook connecting into an alien computer to implant a virus. 3) They should have showed the FBI making the raid and the crooks taking a fall - a hard one. Show Michael (the owner) as somebodies bitch in 3 months.
Final Note: Vin Diesel (?) did a great job - expect to see more of him.
The faults of the movie, had they fixed them - would have made this movie a classic. 1) Ribisi can't act. When he cries at the seminal moment and (later) when he is looking at his father after the arrest - its neither believable nor do you have any emotion towards him. 2) You can't 'back up your C drive onto a floppy'. This F-Up will be remembered like an apple powerbook connecting into an alien computer to implant a virus. 3) They should have showed the FBI making the raid and the crooks taking a fall - a hard one. Show Michael (the owner) as somebodies bitch in 3 months.
Final Note: Vin Diesel (?) did a great job - expect to see more of him.