It's hard to care for a character like Robert Boyd, since he's mostly a satire of real estate agents in general, but with Slater in the role, he's hard not to like. When he kills a woman who may or may not know what they did in Vegas, we secretly hope he gets away with it. Of course, it may just be at the fault of the actors. Christian Slater is a very underrated actor, as he proved with Hard Rain earlier this year. Now he has a meatier role that tends to characterize people's beliefs that real estate agents are evil.
Slater is the one to watch here.
But so is Jeremy Piven as the big, brawny brother of Daniel Stern. Piven is mostly known for his good work on TV's Ellen , his deadpan humor matching Ellen DeGeneres' deadpan comedic abilities. Here he's given a rather emotional role that is probably the most developed of them all. Daniel Stern gets quite annoying due to his psycho-babble and nonstop insanity. Then there's Leland Orser who most remember from his short but frightening turn as a crazed man who had to kill a woman for 'LUST' in the similarly gruesome Se7en .