Barbarians at the Gate
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Movie Reviews of Barbarians at the Gate
Movie Review: An industry and a time nailed by James Garner
Summary: 5 Stars
Though the movie is targteting the US audience I can only recommend this movie for anyone who needs to understand the late 80's and the tobacco business of that time. James Garner does a marvellous performance not only as the CEO of R.J. Reynolds but also as an icon of a time.Movie Review: Barbarians and Buffoons rattling at the gates
Summary: 5 Stars
Good film : Garner gives a remarkably convincing performance.
Screenplay is well structured and pungently critical of the corporate strategies displayed by all those drawn into the levered buyout game and gamble.
Movie Review: Origin of Mergers & Acquisitions
Summary: 5 Stars
This film can be seen as the story telling on the origin of mergers and acquisitions in the history of human which dominates the financial markets activities nowaday.Movie Review: The best CEO's Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Want to know what does "Take Over" means ???? Buy it and know it. Perfect for MBA's students.Movie Review: Not as great as the book, but a DELIGHTFUL farce
Summary: 4 Stars
The book this movie is made from is a masterpiece of business literature. It is impossible to make that wonderful book into anything less than an extended documentary or a several part mini-series. That being admitted and set aside, this is a very good and very funny movie. Amazingly, it tells a lot of the actual story as you can cram into a standard movie format.It is bitingly funny and like all satire that truly bites, it is funny because it is based on truth. This movie condenses the RJR - KKR competition into something like a farce (as it seemed in the papers at the time). Some may object to making such a huge deal into something of a joke, but c'mon, this whole deal had a large dose of the absurd about it. How else could they have played this story in two hours?
And it is has the additional benefit of being educational for business students. You will see how managers misuse shareholder money by treating it as if it were their own (agency costs). You will see planeloads of money poured into bad projects (NPV). You will see naked greed, inept investment advice, and broken trust (corporate ethics). You know, late 20th century American business! It is funny, dramatic, and a bit touching, for example, as they fly the sick pooch home on his own private corporate jet. (Which some deny every happening, but it has entered the realm of legend - so whether it happened or not it has become something like a kind of truth.)
James Garner is terrific (he almost always is) as is the whole cast. It really is a delightful movie and that is almost miraculous given how deadly boring this topic could have become.
But don't forget to read the book!