Title: More Ennui Than Envy
Product review: Despite a promising premise this flick just doesn't work. Either it's in the script or in Barry Levinson's lackluster direction, regardless, "Envy" just lays there. Ben Stiller is too much of a wimp to be capable of anything diabolical. Jack Black's character is too nice to be truly interesting. The movie is saved somewhat by Christopher Walken as a scheming transient type. Time and again Walken has appeared in a film of dubious quality and turned a sow's ear into a silk purse. As far as his efforts here he shouldn't have bothered. I hope he was well compensated.
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