Producer Chris Mallick wearing a shirt with "It's Good to be King" imprinted:
I actually saw "Middle Man" on the last day that it was shown in the Bay Area (a few weeks or so after it debuted). There were less than 10 people in the theater.
The cast and production values were not bad at all.
What I was most disappointed with however, is the portrayal of the adult industry that Christopher Mallick presented.
First of all, he portrayed the character playing himself in this "based on a true story" bio-flick, as some sort of hapless victim, that is unwittingly and unwillingly drawn into the adult industry.
His story then unravels with this ridiculous plot...
According to "Middle Men", Paycom founders, Clay Andrews and Joel Hall, are coked-out degenerate idiots, who were ultimately convicted of felonies and sentenced to jail for their involvement in child porn.
Meanwhile, Mallick's character is instrumental in capturing/killing legions of terrorists as a result of his own involvement in porn. Yeah, right.
Apparently, the Chris Mallick character also is unindictable and bulletproof in his supposed involvement with the Russian mob and a murder which he shown as having a part in, as well as the shooting of another person at a party, with multiple witnesses.
Any suspended disbelief has by now, been permanently suspended. Only an idiot or oblivious egotist could make a movie this implausibly bad.
To add drama to this already vacuous plot, Mallick interjects how he was seduced by a lone porn girl into infidelity with his wife, but then ends the movie suggesting that he left the adult industry to return to his wife and family, when in real life, Chris Mallick remained in the industry until he drove ePassporte into the ground over the past few days, and while in fact, his wife divorced his sorry ass long ago.
If anyone trusts this lying sack of shit with their money again, either in adult or Hollywood, get ready to be taken for a ride by this greedy, selfish, and cowardly, egotistical charlatan.
ADG