Parable

Rating: 5/10 (16 October 2017)

Nobody here? Spoiler warning: The movie is s parable of the 2008 financial crisis. The opening "bank robbing" is the General Societe, the Englishmen stands for the AIG in London and the head of all even looks like Timothy Geithner. Morgan Freeman is Obama. But while this gives the movie some depth and a bit to laugh it's full of simply unbelievable story telling (remember the trick in the FBI cell of one of the magicians who was cuffed and managed to free himself while cuffing the investigator? While this scene is later in the movie analyzed (because of course there is a camera in the cell) one asks herself why this analyzing wasn't done immediately? I for sure would want to know asap how this could happen if I were an agent ...) But then again, look what "errors" happened under the FED in real life... Apart from that 2008/Wall-Street analogy the movie has it's boring action sequences (oh yeah let's crash some cars again), fast video like cutting ... an average movie.