Buddy Ackerman, an influential movie mogul, hires Guy, a naïve young writer, as his assistant. When Guy finds out that his cynical girlfriend has been using sex as a career move, he reaches his limit and decides to exact revenge on Buddy.
Mr. Spacey's Buddy is a caricature so dazzling that even Buddy might have to say something nice about it: cool, withering, studiously suave, and spurred by impulses that might seem peevish even in a 2-year-old child.
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
May 12, 2005
Dazzling and subversive satire on boss-employee relations.
Film.com
January 01, 2000
Sharks is a one-joke movie, and the joke wears thin less than halfway through.
DVDTalk.com
June 17, 2005
It's darkly hilarious, smoothly entertaining, and almost sinfully cruel. And the finalé packs a real stinger.
The picture's raison d'être has to be Spacey's 'loud and nasty' performance: he's the sort of actor who grabs you by the throat and beats you about the head without ever lifting his feet from the desk.
