The Efficiency Expert

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Bradley H @Bradleyh Jun 27, 2025 A slight comedy in the Ealing tradition. A tale of manufacturing past its heyday. A little too quirky in parts. Interesting early career movie of quite a few notable Australian actors - Russel Crowe, Ben mendelson, Toni Colette. See more Stephen C @bob25009 May 26, 2025 **** this movie, I'm getting out of here!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See more Jelisije J @jjosifovic Oct 13, 2024 An underrated heart warming film. See more ashley h @ashleyhobgood87 Mar 28, 2014 The Efficiency Expert is a decent film. It is about an expert on productivity shows wacky workers in 1966 Australia how to run their moccasin factory like clockwork. Anthony Hopkins and Ben Mendelsohn give good performances. The script is a little slow in places. Mark Joffe did an alright job directing this movie. I liked this motion picture because of the drama. See more Feb 21, 2014 "An everyday story about loyalty, betrayal, lust and footwear." The Efficiency Expert is an extremely lame movie on most levels. It has a few things going for it, like Anthony Hopkins who is really good and Russell Crowe in a very early and small role. It's easy to see why I had never heard of this film before. It's pretty unlikable. The characters outside of Hopkins' are terrible, the story is a mess, and it's all rather dull, weird and for long periods, extremely boring. The only thing that keeps it going is Hopkins. Errol Wallace is an efficiency expert who goes into businesses that are failing and figures out what they need to do to start making money again. Most the time, that means downsizing. The main story is Wallace going to a Moccasin factory, where the owner is very loyal to his employees. Then there's little love stories going on and a side story with Wallace and his partner getting backlash for firings at another factory. The Efficiency Expert isn't worth the short hour and twenty nine minute runtime, unless you're like me and just want to see everything Anthony Hopkins has ever done. If you're not a completist, then this is definitely one to skip.  See more Oct 11, 2012 Perhaps I am overrating this by a wee bit, but I was immediately won over by the movie's labour-conscious plot and, of course, Mr Hopkins, delivering yet another delightfully-subdued performance. One of the greatest complaints any movie can have is that it isn't long enough--I wanted to see so much more, even if the story is tied up quite nicely in a bow. See more Read all reviews

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