unfortunately, The Fall of the American Empire doesn't consistently deliver that level of wit as it probes our love of money; The core trio are smooth and amusing in their roles, but the larger plot is filled with painful stereotypes
"The Fall of the American Empire" moves somewhat awkwardly, but the performances are so pleasant that it's easy to forgive this romp for those compromises; the film is always watchable, even for all of its sluggishness
"The Fall of the American Empire" is a richly amusing rumination on the excesses and amorality of capitalism that plays like an ingeniously contrived mashup of film noir melodrama and Ealing Studios comedy
by Kate Taylor [The Globe and Mail ]
