四名富家子为了营救其中一人被绑架勒索的妹妹，欧美竟然合谋绑架了当地的黑道老大，欧美将他放置在另一不知情好友父亲的渡假别墅中，然后肋迫他运用黑道力量打听到绑架的歹徒，并付出二百万美元赎金。不料整个绑架事件竟是一个精心圈套，真相在最后才揭穿。类似本片的剧情架构在美国的独立制片中常被采用，但本片编导仍成功地掌控了老大与富家子之间的心理角力游戏，利用“绑架案有内奸”的秘密信息引起几个好友之间的互相猜疑，从而使后半段的发展显得峰迥回路转。而老大的手下和绑匪这两组黑道搭档则明显有昆汀泰伦提诺式的饶舌和搞笑作风。克里斯多夫毕肯演出处变不惊的老大游刃有余，几名富家子则由亨利汤玛斯领军。
陈妍斐
回复 :尼克（杰森·贝特曼 Jason Bateman 饰）在公司苦熬八年，起早贪黑卖命工作，老板戴夫（凯文·史派西 Kevin Spacey 饰）明明许诺他升职，却临时反悔还狠狠奚落了他一番；戴尔（查理·戴 Charlie Day 饰）是个牙医助手，早就对上司朱莉娅（詹妮弗·安妮斯顿 Jennifer Aniston 饰）放肆的性骚扰忍无可忍；科特（杰森·苏戴奇斯 Jason Sudeikis 饰）本被视为公司接班人，哪想老板突然暴毙，其子鲍比（柯林·法瑞尔 Colin Farrell 饰）擅自接手公司，得意洋洋发挥自己的二世祖精神，眼看就要把公司搞垮。三个在恶老板手下受挫的老友在酒吧聚头，突发奇想决定集体干掉老板，且三人分别避开自己老板出手，就能逃开嫌疑，成就完美谋杀。经过精心策划，三位老友各出奇招，一场笑料百出的“杀掉老板”计划就此展开……
稻叶浩志
回复 :《被操纵的城市》由演员池昌旭、 沈恩敬、吴正世、金相浩、金基天、安在洪、金民教等人出演，导演朴光贤则曾执导过2005年票房突破800万的电影《欢迎来到东莫村》。当天，首次在龙山进行拍摄的池昌旭表示：“紧张、激动，还有着期待。我怀揣着如此复杂的心情进行了拍摄。我确信这是一 部非常有趣的作品。我很期待日后的拍摄。”导演朴光贤则表示：“我写剧本中，脑海中浮现的角色与出演演员们完全一致。因此，我对该作品的期待很大。第一次拍摄的感觉非常棒。我会努力用心拍摄，力求呈现优秀的电影给大众。”《被操纵的城市》是一部犯罪动作电影，讲述了一男子被毫无理由地污蔑为杀人犯之后，与伪造的事件进行正面较量的故事。
夏奇拉
回复 :In this very late 60's irreverent, almost anarchic low-budget film, Brian De Palma defines more of his strange, given Hitchcock-like fascination of voyeurism, and attacks the issues of the day. The most prominent of which, both cringe-inducing and just plain funny, is when he focuses on the black-power movement (a black woman handing out fliers asking white people 'do you know what it's like to be black'), which is something that could only work for that time and place, not before or now.But one of the key things to the interest in the film is 27 year old Robert De Niro (not his first or last film with the director), who plays this character who sits in a room looking out through his telescope at women in their rooms, setting up phony deals, and in the end basically throwing bombs. Those who have said that De Niro can't act and just is himself in every movie should see this movie, if only out of some minor curiosity. A couple of times in the film it's actually not funny, as when there's a disturbance in a black-power meeting (filmed in a grainer, rougher style than the rest of the film).In the end it's capped off with a rambling monologue in an interview that tops De Niro's in King of Comedy. It's pretty obvious where De Palma's career would go after this, into slightly more mainstream Hollywood territory, but all of his trademarks are here; the dark, almost nail-biting comedy, the perfectly timed style of voyeurism, and interesting usage of locals. Think if De Palma and De Niro did a Monty Python film, only even more low-budget and in its New York way just as off-the-hinges, and you got Hi, Mom! It also contains an eccentric and funny soundtrack.imdb comment
