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Average plot, Average movie with well above average Actors.

This is probably what makes the movie watchable. The movie seems like an incredible waste of the highly talented actors they were able to get to make it. It makes me wonder if these actors made this to fulfill a contract obligation with the studio. Nothing else makes sense. Hugh Jackman, Maria Bello, Jake Gyllenhaal, Terence Howard, Paul Dano, Mellisa Leo, and Viola Davis.

If this group of actors had a good script, well, it boggles the mind what they would be able to do with it. They took this ordinary fare and turned it into a moderately entertaining movie. Huzzah!!

Really bad idea. Maybe it will get better but all these actors are really bad fits for this show. William H Macy, is stilted and awkward in the roll of Frank, He's too good for this role, the Sex scenes are just not sexy, and the brutal genius of the original series just doesn't translate. At all.

The Awful, Awful, (and occasionally charming) people of the original series is just going to be to hard to recreate. It might be different if I hadn't seen the original series (the one I continue to watch) but the complete degradation, attitude and flat out despicable-ness of the original characters can in no way be mimicked in a new version. You had to grow with these characters in order to mine the depths of the ugliness they create for themselves, and I can't see myself going through this again in an American version that I already know the plot to. For me it doesn't work at all. For those who haven't seen the British version, maybe it will work.