What Just Happened

I wasn't intrigued with this film and I certainly didn't think it was funny. Actually, I was bored and felt the story line didn't go anywhere. It's okay to want to be quirky but at least be funny, otherwise, don't call... Full review

This movie showcases the sleaziness of the Hollywood movie biz. This in itself, isn't a revelation to the viewer. Robert De Niro stars as Ben, an overburdened movie producer. Ben has to contend with the never-ending demands of 2 ex-wives, his... Full review

I saw this movie last night and had a good time. The cast was excellent. Robert DeNiro was very good as Ben, a Movie Producer ("One of the 30 most powerful Producers in Hollywood" according to Vanity Fair magazine). The movie... Full review

What rating do you give a film when all you can think is "How can I get that 110 minutes of my life back?"... Full review

I have never seen such a bad movie with so many good actors. It was tedious and boring. What just happened is that nothing happened. It is not very funny, and at times just annoying. This is the worst film I... Full review

What just happened... is that I just wasted $10 and two hours of my life on one of the worst movies I've seen in a theater in recent memory. The only reason I stayed to the bitter end is because my... Full review

Strange feeling for a French person to sit at a Hollywood movie theater to watch a movie about Hollywood. People around me laughed more than me because, presumably, the joke touches a lot of local nerves. The story is introduced by... Full review

Art Linson's memoirs are a reminder of what a sad place Hollywood really is. We got closer and more original glimpses in films that go from Wilder's "Sunset Boulevard" to Altman's "The Player". Bernard Rose's "Ivansextc" also comes to mind not... Full review

The title describes the movie - one of the 5 worst movies I've ever seen. We kept waiting for it to be entertaining and it m=never got there.... Full review

Thats what you'll be saying when you leave the movie theater. De Niro is really selling out these past movies, I mean look at Righteous Kill, this movie is not worth the money to watch, you'll get a few laughs, but... Full review

In small, humiliating moments -- such as when Lou contemptuously dismisses Ben's assistant from a conference -- the film accurately catches Hollywood at its ugliest. ... Full Review

The stars from Robert De Niro's latest film "What Just Happened" hit the red carpet in New York on Wednesday (October 1) eager to talk politics the night before the much-anticipated vice-presidential debate. Even the press-shy De Niro confirmed who he was voting for. ... Full Review

This fact-based insider satire adapted from screenwriter Art Linson's tell-all book, finds frantic high stakes producer Ben (Robert De Niro) dashing all around town brokering shaky deals, when not settling old scores and sorting out several different sets of kids from his collection of failed marriages, to drive them all to school. ... Full Review

Linson adapted his own book, and he has some fun recycling some of his insider bits. Small, mild, easy to watch and easier to forget, this adaptation of producer Art Linson's Hollywood memoirs has the virtue of breeziness, and of Robert De Niro unwinding, after one too many tense performances, in the role of Linson's alter ego, a twice-divorced and multi-directionally frazzled movie producer. ... Full Review

With Barry Levinson directing such an incredible cast, though, What Just Happened happily falls into the first category. Farces about Hollywood's lack of integrity have been done before ( The Player ), but What Just Happened still feels fresh and original thanks to Levinson's phenomenal direction. ... Full Review

Bruce Willis was not scared to laugh at himself in new film What Just Happened, according to producer Art Linson. Bruce, who stars as himself in the new film, plays on his reputation for having a big ego and his... ... Full Article

In "What Just Happened," we get a loving tribute to the movie business filled with disdain for the ethics of the people who work in the business. ... Full Article

In skewering the movie business, "What Just Happened" treads delicately and benignly on some pretty well-trampled territory but offers no new insights. Bruce Willis , for example, plays a bloviating version of himself, an overweight diva who grows a Grizzly... ... Full Article

What Just Happened?The gist: Somewhere along the line, Hollywood confused our fascination with celebrity for fascination with Hollywood nuts and bolts, as a movie producer juggles all sorts of nonsense. ... Full Article

Hollywood has a long and often glorious tradition of cannibalizing itself for material, from 1933's Going Hollywood right up to this summer's Tropic Thunder . ... Full Article