Al Pacino's real-estate salesman Ricky Roma slags his manager, John Williamson (Kevin Spacey): "You stupid fucking cunt. I'm talking to you, shithead. . . . Whoever told you you could work with men?"
Ah, the sound of David Mamet -- vulgar, elliptical, tinged with mirth and malice. Mamet's gutter lyricism lit up his 1984 play
Glengarry Glen Ross (it won a Pulitzer). Now Mamet and director James Foley (
After Dark, My Sweet) want to get the urgency of those verbal pyrotechnics onscreen. They don't