There was an assumption of audience knowledge that shouldn't have been there tbh. You have to have some knowledge about the 2008 financial crisis for a lot of this movie to make any sense. Kind of annoying, even if you do understand what's going on. They easily could've added a 5 minute scene to the beginning (or anywhere else really) that showed someone on a fixed income getting approved for a mortgage they clearly couldn't afford and it would've made the core issue way more clear for the audience. The hollow ending didn't do the movie any favors either.

Another movie about Wall Street. Good plot and good story development, lacks a bit of more concrete information but passes the clear message that in the markets the small investors always loose in troubled times. Nice to see.

A boring, forgettable corporate drama that doesn’t delve into its subject matter as deep as _The Big Short_ does, nor does it bring the emotion/shock value of something like _The Wolf of Wallstreet_. I think it’s a big mistake to reduce a meaty, complex topic like the financial crisis to just another tale about corporate greed. Besides, this movie isn’t educational or entertaining about any of that. Instead, this is much more interested in depicting boring finance bros talking in rooms about who’s the bigger asshole. It’s like watching an episode of _Suits_ if you’d take out the great characters and dialogue. They got some pretty great actors for this, but even people like Jeremy Irons and Kevin Spacey aren’t capable of creating good scenes when the material is so surface level. Like the world it’s depicting, the movie is also directed with zero personality. You can really tell this is made by someone with a lack of experience in directing feature films because of how flat the camerawork, editing and blocking are. I’m honestly surprised that this wasn’t developed as an HBO original or for tv, because that’s the feeling I got from watching it. 4/10

>"So, what you're telling me, is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism." Crazy how much greed drives the market and innocent people get affected. That being said, this movie is fantastic. I love The Big Short so another movie showing a more serious and focused tone of the 2008 financial crisis was a good surprise.

The acting in this was pretty good, however the plot was a little lacking. The ending was just so stupid, I get that they've got to end the film somewhere, but [spoiler] ending it with Kevin Spacey digging a hole in his ex-wife's front garden?[/spoiler]