Perry Kate Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Jeanskynebu the audience applauded

Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.

Donald Seymour This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

851222 Greetings from Lithuania.By saying that "The Company Men" (2010) is a disturbing picture i don't mean it's a thriller of horror picture, although in some way you can find it a horror. Horror and disturbance comes from idea of loosing your job, no matter how good you are, loosing it is a frightening idea. you have a family, a house and everything build around the money you are receiving from your work, and the one day it's just goes boom. It the worst feeling you can have. Now this movie is a really good one. All actors did a great job, and especially Ben Affleck who absolutely carries the film. Tommy Lee Jones and especially Kevin Costner are very solid in their respective roles. This movie touched more that many dramas because it accurately reflects on modern times, of having, loosing your job and what comes after - this is a very 21th century story - more of reality actually. Overall, a very solid film, but be warned, when watching it you will definitely are going to imagine yourself in the place of these characters, and the feeling is not the most satisfying. i gave it 10/10 because this picture involved my from the first till the last second.

LeonLouisRicci The Film is Concerned that Corporate Company Men are People. They are but should You Care a whole lot. The Movie sure does. "Corporations are People"...The Supreme Court. Bunk. Corporations are made up of People but are Not People. There is a Big Difference. It Should be Obvious that Corporations have No Heart and They have No Soul. You can't do a Transplant or a Lobotomy on a Corporation and they Cannot Procreate. Yes They can Multiply like a Single Cell, so it is More Accurate to call them an Organism, but Certainly NOT PEOPLE.So here it is, the Top of the Pile, the Peak of the Heap. Are They Interesting? No. They are One Dimensional, Boring, and Whiny, Greedy, Selfish Hunks of Flesh. Talk about Your Useless Eaters. But You're Suppose to become Engaged with these "Folks" and Care about the Fact that They are Losing Their Mansions and Porsches and might have to get Real Jobs.Not so much. It is Difficult to Empathize with the Characters and although some Show Signs of Humanity, so what? As an Entertainment or an Enlightenment, this Movie Leaves a lot to be Desired. It is Flat, Uninteresting, and with Very Little Insight to the Machinations or Personalities for that Matter of what's being Fictionalized up there on the screen.Overall, a Wasted Effort, with Perhaps Noble Intentions, but as a Work of Art it is Bland, Shallow, and the Movie's Tag Line is a Precursor of the Inanities to Follow..."We gave our lives to our jobs…Now it is time to take them back." Is the Writer of that bit of Nonsensical Tripe now in the Unemployment Line?

Chris Mizerak John Wells' 2010 drama "The Company Men" came out at the right time it needed to come out…during the Great Recession. It's all about the effects of the Great Recession on the American people. As far as that aspect is concerned, "The Company Men" accomplishes exactly what it sets out to do, inform us of its effects. Unfortunately, that's all it does well and what's worse, this film came out a little too late to truly make a huge impact on the audience. It doesn't help that a better film on the Great Recession called "Up in the Air" came out a year earlier. We follow three employees (Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper) who have been let go from the same corporation due to downsizing in the midst of the recession. One (Affleck) sees his life of luxury with his wife and kids deteriorate as a result of being let go and being unable to find jobs that suit his needs. It gets to the point where he might have to rely on his brother-in-law (Kevin Costner) to help him out. One (Jones) has been friends with the CEO (Craig T. Nelson) since the very beginning, but now finds this friendship challenged due to the CEO's inconsistent future plans. And the third one (Cooper) is severely struggling to find a new job due to his old age. This film basically follows the paths that these three take to get back to normal. "The Company Men" does its part at informing us of how harmful the Great Recession is to the lives of the American people. The story is told decently and maintains its focus on whom the story should be focusing on: the three main characters or at least the crucial people in each of their lives. While I wouldn't say that there were any standout performances in this picture that I could really praise, the actors do their best at taking their roles seriously and giving them the respect they deserve. The problem I had with "The Company Men" is that it's straight up boring. The characters we have to spend time with just feel bland and forgettable. There's no real complexity to their personalities and there's nothing unique about these people that I've seen in other movies. Ben Affleck's character comes to mind when naming a surprisingly one-dimensional storyline. While the story tackles relevant subject matter, it's executed in a predictable and unsurprising manner. Because the characters are dull, we're sort of watching something that keeps moving along but doesn't emotionally impact us in the slightest. We know exactly what will happen at least 10 seconds before it happens. We know what the outcomes for the characters and the future relationship between certain characters will be. We pretty much know how everything will pan out, so there's no real point in even watching this film if that's how we feel about it. "The Company Men" doesn't do anything awful besides having a predictable story and cardboard characters. If you'll settle for a film that informs at a relevant time, this does what it's designed to do. Otherwise, look elsewhere.

troydolan7 Having some experience with corporate America and being fired I was eager to see this. While I did relate to and appreciate some elements, the problem is you can see where this movie is going a mile away. The main character has a metamorphosis from ego driven career man until he gets what's really important in life...ya know the kind of stuff he should have understood before he got fired. While the Ben Affleck character is compelling, it's still too hard to make the white collar exec losing his job into a sympathetic story. Other character's fate you can see a mile away while the Chris Cooper character killing himself. And to make the one prominent female employment sleep with one of the executives hearkens back to old fashioned movie sexism where most successful females were portrayed as ruthless women who would sleep their way to their top if they have to (and this is coming from a guy). And giving Kevin Costner a Boston accent is strange casting indeed. A noble attempt but ultimately this movie is about as satisfying as a trip to the unemployment office.