Pacionsbo Absolutely Fantastic

Onlinewsma Absolutely Brilliant!

MusicChat It's complicated... I really like the directing, acting and writing but, there are issues with the way it's shot that I just can't deny. As much as I love the storytelling and the fantastic performance but, there are also certain scenes that didn't need to exist.

Lucia Ayala It's simply great fun, a winsome film and an occasionally over-the-top luxury fantasy that never flags.

Icarus Alexander Better to understand what a mortgage-backed security (MBS) is to fully appreciate this movie. A well acted slow burn financial drama set during the banking collapse of 2008 with a splash of morality. Kevin Spacey was the one with a heart. He cared about people and his dog. The irony.

jtom-29387 Many people considered this like a continuation of Wall Street. To me it looks much better, because it has a much more balanced view of the finance industry.The movie was so realistic that it seemed real and made me wonder who the unnamed company was. What was interesting that people from so many different levels were presented, all of them very well paid, all them willing to burn the midnight oil, and all of them trying to do what they thought best for the company.There was no false sentimentalism, their business was to make money. Once they figured out that the ground was shifting under them, they did the logical thing, getting rid of the toxic assets at the first chance. This was their job, not saving the world.So I had more sympathy for the Jeremy Irons character than for the Kevin Spacey characters. All the actors were very good as was the direction and the dialogue. It makes me wonder which company provided the inspiration for the movie. Because of its quality it could have been only Goldman Sacks or Morgan Stanley. Since GS went relatively early out of MBS and since one of the management sacrificial lambs was a woman I think it was Morgan Stanley.

lauragustine This film presents us with a group of traders who discover that, oops, they may have made a teeny, weeny error and are about to crash the bank, plunge the Western world into recession and cost millions of people their jobs and homes.As they scrabble to save their sorry backsides the film makers clearly hope that the viewer will feel sorry for them. This on the rather thin grounds that: 1. they're all terribly good-looking; 2. they're only doing what they've been told to do; 3. trading and making obscene amounts of money is 'all they've ever wanted to do' (yup, stand back, this guy has a dream); 4. the people they work for are even more hideous than they are.In a desperate bid to extract some sympathy from the viewer Kevin Spacey cries over his dead dog and attempts to flee the impending chaos, only to be reined back in by CEO Jeremy Irons. Mr Irons is allowed to retain his British accent to ensure that the American audience will immediately realize that he is a being of pure unadulterated evil. He snacks casually while Rome burns and offers Kevin a slice of puppy sandwich while insisting he sticks around to make yet more money.Well, these are the people who rule the world, film studios included, so I suppose they have to try to make you believe that they have redeeming qualities. Even if you don't, they all got off Scot free anyway so what you think of them is really of very little importance.

Vira The screenplay for this film was as fraudulent as the mortgage-backed securities about which it purported to be. Imagine some cheesy acting class where the actors are told to stand in a circle and improvise dialog about a nonexistent object in the middle of the circle. (They are allowed to pepper their dialog liberally with the expression "Eff me!") The actors continually refer to The Thing and the Impending Doom that it will bring, though it is clear that not one of them has any idea what The Thing is, nor do any two of the actors have the same idea. The only thing clear is that Chandor had zero understanding of the mechanics of the financial crisis. The film itself almost works as a metaphor for the fraud perpetuated on the investing public. Chandor attempts to promote the false narrative that it was Youthful Genius in the financial industry who first and most fully understood the global economic implications the fraud. Plenty of blame to go around, and plenty of blind greed to condemn, but the Young Turks were as guilty of lack of understanding, lack of context, and unbridled greed as the Old Heeds. A lot of alleged star power in this film, but I lose regard for anyone associated with this fraud of a production, despite a couple of genuinely handsome faces in the cast. I will probably revise my rating at some point in the future, but I feel so cheated right now by the unfulfilled promise of this film that I'm in a bad mood at the moment. So, "Eff me!", Chandor? No, "Eff you."