The pace of the movie could have been faster... It was like watching an art movie... The twists and turns were ok... The only twist I didn't see coming was at the end. Otherwise.. a better movie could have been produced with the same story line

Two stars for Anthony Hopkins and Al Pacino being cast but aside from that this was a big steaming pile of poo!! Sorry but even AH and AP couldn't save this.....baaaaaaaad!! Avoid at all costs

Arthur Denning (Anthony Hopkins) is the CEO of Pierson Pharmacy which is responsible for the deaths of individuals during clinical drug trial testing, in which they had tampered with results to get the drug approved for testing. Emily Hynes (Malin Akerman) is the young sexy girlfriend and employee of Dr. Denning who is urging him to leave the country. Our protagonist, Ben Cahill (Josh Duhamel) ia a lawyer who works for Charles Abrams (Al Pacino). He wins cases, but has an inside man who can hack files, i.e. doing the wrong thing for the right reason as he justifies it. His wife Charlotte (Alice Eve) is a nurse. Later we find out they lost a child due to a miscarriage. The film opens with Emily going missing, then jumping to one week earlier when Emily contacts her former boyfriend Ben Cahill with Arthur's personal files.Yes it starts out with a twist, but that is hardly a plot spoiler. There are numerous twists as this thing goes on, twists that don't make sense or have decent clues, but exist for the simple reason as if to say, see how clever we are? I felt the film would have been better if they had left off the last twist or two. Josh Duhamel was deadpan in his role and our two headliners were rather boring, although it was clear Hopkins was trying to play an evil heartless man not named Hannibal. There was enough misconduct to go around with the miscast of Josh Duhamel being the worse.Bourne girl Julia Stiles did good as a security agent, but she had a minor role.Guide: F-bomb. No sex (sorry about the plot spoiler). No nudity.

I like refrigerator movies. Hitchcock called the serviceable thrillers that because while they were very entertaining to watch, after you go home and are going through the refrigerator, you start to pick apart the plot. In case of Misconduct, you might as well carry a portable refrigerator because you start picking the plot apart while watching it!Some good direction and clever plotting can help cover a deeply flawed movie to an extent. This movie however is extremely tone deaf. There is no sense of directorial style. There is an insulting use of non- linear chronology which serves no purpose other than to hide the fact that the plot is paper thin. It goes without saying that Al Pacino and Sir Anthony Hopkins are legends. They can make Troll 3 at this point and their legacy won't be hurt. Well maybe a little bit, but they are still legends. But this movie wastes their talents especially Hopkins who seems like he is waiting to cash in his check. Pacino gets a scene to go bombastic but you just don't care and just feel sad for the guy. Josh Duhamel tries but the ridiculous script defeats him. The standout is Alice Eve who gives the worst performance I have ever seen in a big budget movie. There is emotionally distant and there is whatever the hell Eve was going for. I was in a flight and looking for a quick movie to kill the time but this movie despite a promising start, completely goes off the rails and ends up being a waste. There is a scene about 70% into the movie where Hopkins and Pacino are on-screen, for the first time EVER...and you just don't give a damn! That is all you need to know about this junk.