Mjeteconer
Just perfect...
Marketic
It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.
Merolliv
I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.
Rosie Searle
It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.
fernandoneves-58430
That's right look at the title. That's exactly what the producer said when he finished this movie. It's like when just made the most fabulous cake and instead putting a cherry on top of it you put a big dump.The most messed up thing is: this producer thinks that people will still remove the top and eat the rest of it. One last aspect is how the producer tried to cover all your rational options with aspects that have 1% of happening IN ONE SINGLE NIGHT. «««««««««««««SPOILERS SECTION»»»»»»»»»»»»»»»-Main actor nervous to conceal a lie? -He is getting engaged! that will do. -Gets the wallet and leaves? -Close the building nobody gets out!-Hello Mr officer come on In to my private property! -Let's gamble lottery tickets because we are not all that broke to gamble real money.Bring me a math equation to understand how a phone call to person A Brings person B without any knowledge from A. Oh boy if I had that winning lottery ticket and asked the pope to pick it up he would have to let me know every 5 min. (oh yeah wife calls) legit!...not But yes every possible turn that this movie takes looks so forced that hurts to watch. There is nothing natural in this film, every irrational turn this movie takes is covered up by some backup master plan that exists only inside the producers head. 15 years later somebody made me watch this and I think... how Ryan Reynolds didn't laugh at the script back then?
ardentayu
Despite the fact that this movie takes place in one location, it does not drag or get boring - that in and of itself is a HUGE accomplishment! I thought the story was great how it put the main character into a sticky situation. All the characters had distinct personalities, which kept their conversations entertaining. The psychological suspense was strong. It's a movie wrought with tension. I applaud an indie filmmaker (Jeff Probst) for pulling off a good movie on a budget that is tiny compared to the studio budgets.If you liked it, watch the director's commentary. Jeff Probst is very open about the process and how this film came into fruition (before he got his Survivor gig, by the way).If you are looking for an indie film with some humor, psychological suspense, and good acting, check out this film.
Rogue-32
Finder's Fee has an exceedingly decent premise at its heart, but the writer (and we know who HE is) doesn't have the skill to pull it off; there are plotholes and contrivances galore, the stupidest one being the way the cops show up to 'seal off' the building - we're never actually given a reason why this happens, just some odd line from Forster about someone named "Raymond getting stuck" somewhere. I truly have no clue who "Raymond" is. This horrendously bad plot device could have been easily explained by writing in something about how, say, they were looking for someone who had supposedly escaped from custody into the building. I was thinking at one point that the cops (if indeed they WERE cops) were in on it with James Earl Jones' character (to keep him in the building so he could get the lottery ticket back), but that doesn't really hold water because near the end --POSSIBLE SPOILER -- when Tepper gives Forster's character the ticket, Forster would have known it wasn't the right ticket (he would have KNOWN the winning 3 numbers from James Earl Jones' character). So he would have come back for the RIGHT ticket after checking it, blah blah blah. -- END OF POSSIBLE SPOILERI hate when movies do this to you, when a film is just not well-written enough to truly hold up but yet you're sucked in because it's written just well enough to keep your attention. This could have been a really decent movie if the writer had put some genuine thought into it. Three words: details, details, details.
TheVid
The whole scenario is contrived and predictable. This independent feature has a relatively well-known cast who do an adequate job with a one-act play concocted as if it were a two-week writing assignment from James Lipton (and it might have impressed HIM). Unconvincing, unenlightening, turgid little melodrama on modern ethics and greed. Simpleminded stuff.
