Some of Downey's film is lousy. Some of it has a peculiar surreal opportunism and rudeness to his hosts -- to the party, to the payers, to the American economy -- the works blissfully.

The situations include political caricature, but disappointedly nothing much beyond marginal interest occurs. The comedy is only intermittently funny and the satire is mostly shallow and obvious.

A satire on American ways of life, written and directed by Downey and misfiring on most cylinders.

Robert Downey Sr.'s absurdist social satire about a Black man radicalizing an ad agency seems almost tame nowadays, but was considered quite off-the-wall and daring in its time.