Luke Wilson hurt this movie

Edward norton would have been perfect. Good call.

I thought Luke was great. But my husband agreed with you. He thought Vinfe Vaugh or the like should have been cast.





I apologize for grammatical errors- a side effect of IMDbing on my iPhone.

I don't think the Luke Wilson could ever scare or intimidate ANYONE even if he had a loaded shotgun pointed at their head.

And he is standing up to James Caan? I bet everytime he had to back down to Luke in the movie, he just kept thinking about how much he was being paid to do so.

I ABSOLUTELY was thinking of Collin Ferrell too. Just solid enough to where he can be a professional business man and a tough guy that you dont f- with

Norton to. Sort of like Tyler Durden at work.

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Hmmm, I thought Luke was perfect for this. He was a businessman, not cornball at all ... I loved that he always said, let's focus here on what we have to do. He was great in this movie. Casting Wilson was an inspired piece of work, this movie rises above its level for such competent and reasonable decisions.

Cornball would be good in this movie, and it was.
People are more likely to go off on someone who is threatening looking and angry,
and Wilson was cornball enough not to seem threatening or dishonest ... he knows
how to work the marketing and what human behavior is like. I particularly liked the
line ... now I forgot it, but something like "let's focus on what we are here for" ...
it is called bringing the meeting back to the point.
Everything Wilson said or even every look he had was like a commercial on TV or
something, getting people back to focus ... plus most of the others were so busy
with their own self-centeredness they were crazy. Anyway, I thought it worked
well.

As I'm not a fan of any one with the last name Wilson, I thought Luke played the role well. Typically, when actors whom we associate with comedy are cast in such roles I cringe and as expected I spend the movie playing casting director. Not so much in the case of this movie. I will say that Luke is really a decent actor and just has a bad agent. :) Keep in mind the role called for an average guy, with more books smarts than exercised street smarts who finds myself in a very lucrative, yet sordid opportunity. The scene at Denny Z's house kind of through me off, as I didn't think Luke's character had the brass to even think about it, but again let's not forget how he got his start in Chicago....
To those of you in the Norton camp, I love him too but can you say overexposure?

I normally hate Luke but he was ok in this role. He absolutely sucked in Old School.

Luke in this film was the same way that Johnny Depp was in "Blow" and his character worked for that movie.