"The Sell Out" has an overall rating of 4.9 on IMDB...indicating it's NOT a very good film. However, something needs to be taken into account...nearly HALF the ratings for this film are 10s!!! Clearly, when a bad or even mediocre movie gets this many 10s, someone or group of people are messing with the ratings. IMDB must have realized this and weighted the scores, as with so many 10s I cannot explain why the movie still has such a low overall score.
"The Sell Out" is an international production with a couple past their peak big-name actors, Richard Widmark and Oliver Reed. Otherwise, you won't recognize most of the actors...and as I watched, I could understand why they won't be recognized...they, like the director, just aren't very good.
The story is a convoluted and talky story about a former CIA agent (Widmark) and a double-agent (Reed). The double-agent says he wishes to return to the NATO fold...but for some reason both sides want to kill him and the former CIA agent. Why and what are they hiding?
This is an extremely cheap and low energy film...despite being about spies and murder. It's not bad enough to merit scores like 1 or 2...but isn't much better than that. I REALLY found myself struggling to pay attention or even care about this film...and it's interesting how dull they managed to make the production.
