Sometimes more to life, and plots, than knowing who's to kill whom. Only sometimes. Ronin was a rewrite for money, wasn't it? But I recall enjoying it on its own relaxedly rocket-launching terms--not Wag the Dog, which was obvious (at what it was interested in) and uninspired.

Best Mamet movies are from his plays. The other ones he directs himself are all good, but seem to be variations on the same plot. And recently he's gone mad, of course--man needs to rewatch his own Homicide a few hundred times.