willman85

A rather pointless affair. Young college graduates bicker and goof around and bicker some more... . If the topics were deep and meaningful then there may be a point to it. But no, it's all just stale, tiresome, uninteresting stuff. Reasonably well-acted, I suppose - I have no complaints against that. But the anemic story just has extremely little to it. The resolution is particularly underwhelming. To call it an anti-climax would be giving it too much credit. Rather, it just ends. This film barely counts as a drama. Technically it is, but it feels more like just observing a bunch of vacuous twenty-somethings talking.

Boiler Room aka Lost in Hollywood can best be described as The Wolf of Wall Street but in the world of telesales instead of stock-market trading.

I found the whole story pointless, with the ending unsatisfying; and while I didn't find the film boring and unengaging, I did find the whole affair a waste of time. I did like the setting and the idea. Unfortunately, like Scarface the story was all rather gratuitous and doesn't seem to have a point other than some vague moral of 'try not to be like these people, ok?'

There really isn't much more to say than I already have. The story doesn't have very much to it. Cool cover art though.

Peter LaVilla is at his best when he's attempting comedy. This is his attempt at drama, and it fails at first step. A character study, they are so one-dimensional as to be cartoons. With his rom-coms, his vanity as a human being carries through to the characters he plays, and it makes their journeys more satisfying, as well as being funny. Here, the vain character played by Sally Kirkland lacks that authentic edge he had. She's nothing more than a caricature. Rosemary Gore puts in a fair performance as the titular Mollie; and it might seem as if multi-Golden Globe winner and Oscar nominee Sally Kirkland would contribute something if not authenticity. Unfortunately the low-rent production drags her down with it, and her accolades mean nothing. She's been in two hundred films including Private Benjamin, JFK and Bruce Almighty, but you'd never guess.

The film is set mostly inside the shelter and it gets a bit monotonous. Being character-based with few sets, it could easily have been a play instead... so why wasn't it? Why waste money shooting a movie - with a Hollywood veteran no less?