Weapons of Mass Distraction

1997 "In business, size matters"
6| 1h40m| R| en| More Info
Released: 10 November 1997 Released
Producted By: HBO
Country: United States of America
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As two warring media moguls grapple for ownership of a coveted professional football team, they use the newspapers, magazines and television stations they own to destroy each other's reputations.

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Stephen Surjik

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Weapons of Mass Distraction Audience Reviews

Scanialara You won't be disappointed!
Micitype Pretty Good
Exoticalot People are voting emotionally.
Matrixiole Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.
merklekranz Take dozens of characters with zero development. Now, make them all unlikable and downright boring. Next, be sure they act like each and every one is reading cue cards to be certain all of the cardboard performances appear the same. The script should look as if it was put through a blender, and then randomly presented. And the most unbelievable insult to the poor audience is that all of this preposterous, backstabbing nonsense, is over ownership of a football team? That is "Weapons of Mass Distraction", a simply awful film.. Ben Kingsley, Gabriel Byrne, Mimi Rogers, Illeana Dougles, Jeffrey Tambor, Paul Mazursky, and Kathy Baker, all appear in this tiresome, shameful mess. - MERK
Paul_Kynman The writer Larry Gelbart has to be one of the greatest talents of several generations.Why isn't he a household name?Check his CV - and if you're over 35 you'll have been entertained by his narrative, his humour, his wit. He's tickled you. And at the same time made you think.That's when you should get an Oscar. When you can make someone laugh and think at the same time. That's really good writing. Really good thinking.Thanks for being a really good thinker Larry.
marlowe_is_dead I liked the fact that this satire became more and more outlandish & soap opera-esque as it continued - reading one of the other user comments, it would appear not everyone got this...7.5/10
Stu-5 Weapons of Mass Distraction proves to be an inconsequential mess of loose plot points and unanswered questions. In what was initially supposed to be a satire, it only gets lost in it's web of lurid, superfluous, irrelevant occurrences.Two billionares rival over ownership of a famous American football team. That's what we understand from the blurb. Unfortunately, the references to that are just so vague that it is somewhat of a sub-plot. There really is no plot. It goes nowhere!On one end of the spectrum we have Robert Altman's fine satire "The Player", focusing on big business and movies. On the other end of the spectrum we have this.Combine this: helicopter accident, closet gay businessman, jewish holocaust surviver, appendage enlargement, trans-gender wife and adulterous cable repairman newly fired. That's precisely what the film is!It's awful. One out of ten.