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Rating: 3/10 (6 January 2016)

Well, If I were you I'd sell Sominex shares short, this production is a much better way of putting people to sleep than any known medication. How can you take an event like the crash of 2008 and make it look like a day at the offices of Dunder Mifflin?
Steve Carell, one the mysteries of the universe, like cold fusion, like atomic entanglement,like the make up of quarks... nobody can understand these phenomena, just like nobody can explain the success of Mr Carell. I'm sure he's a very nice guy, but he happens to be a cosmic coincidence where someone gets paid for just being who they are. They could have just cut and pasted a couple of scenes from that very same "Office" series mentioned above, and nobody would have noticed the difference.
As for the plot of the movie itself there's nothing new here, even though the real event was earthshaking, the bad guys lose and the bad guys win. There is a half hearted attempt to portray one side sympathetically but in this sleazy business they're all greedy and they're all big time gamblers so there's no redemption when one of them cashes in.In the end the man in the street has to pay for it all.
They use the "House of Cards" trick where the actors speak directly to the camera but there's an emptiness to it that makes you beg for Kevin Spacey to be talking.
I think that emptiness is conveyed because the actors themselves (and maybe even the Director) don't have any understanding of how the finance business works and particularly didn't have any idea as to how the collapse came about.
To be honest, there was more tension and emotion in the PBS documentary on the crash of 2008 than this film. You know that feeling you get when you have a flat tire and you're stuck at the side of the freeway? Well that's how I felt when I got out of the cinema.
I should say though that Marisa Tomei has matured just beautifully and I could overlook the bad parts of this clunker just for the pleasure of seeing her on the big screen.
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