Disclosure

Director Barry Levinson and screenwriter Paul Attanasio are great guys to waste time with. The latter has a real flair for writing strong, confrontational scenes -- brisk, needling, well shaped -- and the former stages them with coolly concentrated intensity. And the cast is terrific.

Disclosure is a frankly adult picture. The seduction scene is protracted and genuinely sexy -- though what this woman sees in Douglas is a mystery. The talk in Disclosure is also frank -- and unusually explicit. People talk about sex in this picture as they would in life. more

The movie, like the book, is a work of opportunistic gamesmanship, a luridly farfetched conspiracy thriller masquerading as an inquiry into the zeitgeist. You can't take Disclosure very seriously, yet the film has been made with cleverness and skill, and with a keen eye for the latest styles in corporate paranoia and ruthlessness. more

Genuinely gripping, Demi makes an awesome femme fatale. more

The screenplay is a distinct improvement on Crichton's one-dimensional, humorless potboiler. The movie comes closest to thematic coherence in its depiction of something nearly everyone can relate to: the office from hell. more

Dramatically, Disclosure isn't especially potent, but it isn't drama that Crichton and Levinson are striving for. On its own terms -- the fear of lost security that many thrillers prey upon -- Disclosure works, and that's all that anyone can reasionably ask from this kind of motion picture. more

Disclosure is polite pulp fiction, a reasonable rendition of potentially risible material. This lavishly appointed screen version of Michael Crichton's page-turner about sexual harassment and corporate power has what it takes to deliver plenty of year-end bounty into Warner Bros.' coffers, although it might have been even more commercial had it been more shamelessly trashy. more

The spirit of the film, though, is snazzier and more playful than Crichton's rather thin, humorless schematic. The subject is serious; thankfully, the movie is not. more

Disclosure contains an inspiring terrific shot of Demi Moore's cleavage in a Wonderbra, surrounded by 125 minutes of pure goofiness leading up to, and resulting from, this moment. more

In his zeal to break the book down into bite-size, cutting-edge nuggets, adapter Paul Attanasio has squandered-and arbitrarily altered-many of those details. more

A sort of thriller as an old flame comes back to accuse Michael Douglas character of sexual harassment. Then it gets tied up in corporate politics and legal proceedings. Not bad overall but looking a little didn't and a bit long for a film of this type. more

This movie is the PRECISE example of why you don't go dipping your pen in the office ink,because it will come back to explode in your pocket. They were both very good in this and the story was good. The sex scene was too much for me,wouldn't you hate to have been the cleaning lady in that building? more

The first hour was Boring with a capital B. It looked as though it was going to go somewhere really interesting - what with the fierce debates about sex and power, and strong arguments coming from both a male and female perspective. Unfortunately, it turned into a high-tech cyber thriller that simply became confusing towards the end. 3 stars. more

When most people watch movies that have been made from books, they usually come away from the movie thinking, "The book is better." My own response to that comment might be, "They're pretty equal in quality." With the exception of a few name changes ("Twinkle Drive" in the book becomes "Arcomax" in the movie; from "Louise Fernandez" to "Katherine Alvarez"), the movie follows the plot of the book pretty closely. It's actually one of the first modern movies I've seen that doesn't stray that far from the book. The premise of the movie is an intriguing one to me. High profile cases, such as... more