Originally published on metropolis.co.jp on September 2011

This horror film for corporate climbers cycles among the stories of three upper-level executives (Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper) who are fired amid a tanking economy in order to affect a short-term stock uptick that their once-friend, ridiculously compensated CEO (Craig T. Nelson) deems necessary. Unabashedly told from a viewpoint above the glass ceiling, it effectively details the woes of execs struggling to replace the careers that defined them. The ensemble cast is ably augmented by Maria Bello, Rosemarie DeWitt and a very good Kevin Costner doing a bit of character work.