Poorly done TV-grade story about two very important global issues, one manipulated by Wall Street scoundrels for criminal gain(really?), and the other was nearly overlooked in this rambling and disjointed story that was lowered to moronic and absurd due to poor storytelling and editing, and some really terrible acting by Angie Harmon. Selma Blair was not much better, but Harmon was over the top obvious as a Russian mafia operative, and made her part a leering, grinning joke in a story that should hinge on personal control, secrecy, duplicity and treachery. In her role as the main squeeze of Christian Slater's Wall Street mover and shaker, Blair was allowed facial expressions and body language of a high school freshman girl in a role of a grown woman. Nobody noticed that a bit more shown maturity might be better for her professional role, on Wall Street? Hello! The interesting and compelling part of this type of story should be its devious mystery, secrecy and who-done-it quality, and not in exposing every aspect of "the deal" to the viewer as it unfolded. What a totally dumb film made for dummies and an insult to the talented male lead Christian Slater, who made a big mistake taking a role in this TV level junk. He did well, but was overwhelmed by others' poor acting, and bad casting and overall filmmaking. Only thing good about it was the really ominous and sinister soundtrack. Very effective, so something actually was done right.
But, showing again a lack of creativity, the film's title "The Deal" has been used as a film title about a million times before, thus is another perfect example of this filmmaker's total lack of knowing and using just about anything that would make a good movie. A lot of money was lost on this dog that cost way more than it made. And, if he didn't gain any satisfaction from it, and I am sure he didn't in this loser, at least Slater got paid for his good work. He was the only one who deserved it.
But, showing again a lack of creativity, the film's title "The Deal" has been used as a film title about a million times before, thus is another perfect example of this filmmaker's total lack of knowing and using just about anything that would make a good movie. A lot of money was lost on this dog that cost way more than it made. And, if he didn't gain any satisfaction from it, and I am sure he didn't in this loser, at least Slater got paid for his good work. He was the only one who deserved it.