Films with satisfying surprises in their finales operate on the principle that if you were to go back and watch the film
again, you'd see the puzzle pieces were there all along and that you simply hadn't assembled them. A cheaper way to surprise your audience, and the method used by "Employee of the Month," is to simply lie to them. Tell them one thing up front and then, when you change everything around at the end, they'll sure be surprised! Surprised and pissed off, but surprised. It is bad enough that "Employee of the Month" is a bad comedy for most of its running time. It adds insult to injury when, in its last act, is also becomes a bad heist movie, with crosses and double-crosses occurring entirely at random without regard for the facts already established. This makes it a bad movie in two different genres, an impressive feat, to be sure.
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