The film is the first venture from Ben Affleck and Matt Damon's new production company, Artists Equity. Film critic Sean Burns calls it a crowd-pleaser filled with quick-witted one-liners, Reagan-era ephemera and CEOs.
Enormously entertaining and maybe just a little bit evil, director Ben Affleck's"Air" is all about how a humble $100 million corporation became a behemoth worth hundreds of billions. This anatomy of a celebrity endorsement is an underdog sports movie without the sports. And without the underdogs.
Opening with Dire Straits'"Money for Nothing" , the movie is besotted with totally '80s period details. When Affleck was in town 11 years ago promoting"Argo," he told me that one of his favorite parts of making that movie was getting to relive his childhood by filling the protagonist's son's bedroom with toys from 1979.
Such texture is important because there's not a lot of suspense. Anyone who's been to a shoe store or a basketball court over the past four decades already knows how well Sonny's big bet is going to pay off, so the pleasures of the film lie in its atmosphere and the zippy interactions of these terrific performers.
It's nice to see Chris Tucker in a movie again, even if he and Marlon Wayans feel like they were hired to distract us from the fact that this story about the world of professional basketball is otherwise awfully white. Chris Messina spits fire as Jordan's foulmouthed agent David Falk, who in real life steered his client toward the Nike deal but for dramatic purposes here is dead set against it.
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