SoTrumpBelieve Must See Movie...

Smartorhypo Highly Overrated But Still Good

Casey Duggan It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

Dana An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

newjersian What's the difference between American crap and French crap? American crap, like the Wall Street movie, makes some sense. The French crap, the Costa Gavras's Capital, makes absolutely no sense. That movie states that there are only two evils in the world: America and the banks. Regarding America the case is clear. The Gaul's pride, humiliated and still not recovered since WWII, always pushes French movie creators to show the better French people and the superior life in Paris in comparison to New-York. This movie is no different. Full of clichés, it paints Americans as greedy, unscrupulous and dishonest people. And, of course, the bad Americans are planning to cause a new crisis in Europe. The case of banks is more complicated. How the movie paints the banking system? Because of it people lose their jobs, and the rich bankers rob the poor people. And this is the French crap that doesn't make sense. It's absolutely sure that Costa-Gavras, like billions of people around the world, has a check book and a credit card, and at some time in his life took out a mortgage or a private loan. Banks create jobs, not kill them! Banks help to fund businesses, they allow the poor to buy a house with a mortgage, to purchase a car, to finance the kid's education, to get a loan to improve the house. Banks pay interest on the savings. Would Costa-Gavras prefer to keep his money in cash under the pillow? Of course, banks make money, but not many people in the world are ready to work without having some profit. Banks are not the ultimate evil like Costa-Gavras wants to convince us, and capital plays rather positive role in the world affairs. On the artistic side the movie is primitive and absolutely unbelievable. It's a caricature of real life. Dull and unimpressive movie.

bjarias The real problem with these kinds of films... its' as if if all these types of 'situations' just begin to take place in the immediate time-frames. When in reality they would have had to been sorted out a long time before. In addition, this one's a bit to 'dry'... characters to distant.. none to be empathetic with.. overall it all gets very boring.. (and really.. she's their 'super-model'). So who cares... only real problem we must acknowledge.. in today's world, it's more than likely these are the exact same kinds of oligarchs we're having to deal with today.. and that's the truly scary realization. Cold blooded narcissism and greed rules all.. along with callousness to the lives of 'real people.' Do we find our way back, or like this portrayal, are we ultimately lost... when 'it all blows up.'

xdisruptor If there is one message that the movie is trying to communicate to its audience it's the above title.There are of course reviews that point out the alleged likeliness of this film with movies like "Wall Street" usually concluding "that there is nothing new to see". Under closer examination however, any similarities between the two films go only skin-deep and can only be considered superficial. There are fundamental differences between these two movies because they represent two different approaches and evaluations of the same issue and which one hits home is up for you to decide. And thats because "Wall Street" focuses on the seducing power and aloofness of a loan shark that acts as a money fueled lone wolf, as opposed to the naiveness of a young rookie which is slow to disillusion himself about his own actions while he's getting carried away (but eventually comes out on top etc). The caveat of such scenarios is in that they constantly, silently and almost purposefully marginalize the inherent, all consuming, self-perpetuating environment and ill-conceived culture that money in and all by itself creates, even for "the winners of the game". La Capital on the other hand has none of the above shortcomings when it comes to describing the black hole lurking deep into the very foundations of our culture: Money. It's a film about attitudes and value systems across the board, with a scenario that's free of cliché good-guy-vs-bad-guy dualities and with the courageous nerve to "pull no punches" sparing its viewer from having to suffer another stereotypical "happy ending" made-in-Hollywood (has elements of it but still its not "right into your face").Finally, I would just like to add that, all in all, Mr Gavras is right in that there will come a time in the not so distant future ... A time in which, among other things, our western culture will look back to the contemporary intellectuals and artists to examine which ones did of their duty in terms of articulating the public opinion, bringing the spotlight on the machinations of the financial system and the corrosive effects that money in and all by itself has both on our societies as a whole, in our own micro-worlds and those of our acquaintances as well as our own fragile, individual psyches. And when this time comes I think that the memory of both Mr Gavras and those that stood by him in this and similar projects will be, if not exalted, then at the very least spared from the outrage of the dystopian poverty-striken masses.

rightwingisevil Let's continue to rob the poor and make the rich richer!" this is what about the modern day banking and financing (undre)world, banks are just like Mafia, bankers Mafiosos, banks' CEO in private jet doing country hopping, hiring retired cop to do the dirt-digging and trashcan/dumpster diving jobs, committing some adultery flirting with high priced model- hooker, back-stabbing while self defense, behind the door deals, estranged to parents, wives, kids, fence off hostile takeover, firing the employees as many as possible, no gender and age are safe, laying off more, the stockholders will be happier and the stock will be rocketing. so, indeed "money is not a tool but a master, serving him well and he'll reward you generously". so let's continue to rob the poor blind and serve the rich loyally. what a great movie, very tense and thrilling, great montage, lot of exotic locations in different countries. this is a very nicely done movie, quite worth watching.