Good but not the best. Lacks relevent analysis.

Rating: 7/10 (17 June 2020)

As a financier myself I love a good finance related movie provided the plot is accurate and sophisticated enough not to patronise the audience.
This movie unfortunately fails to a certain extent on those factors.
The key drivers of the 2008 crash are discussed but they are revealed in a somewhat flippant and over simplistic way that doesn't really properly explain real events.
We have cuts to famous celebs explaining to the dumb viewer in a ridiculously convoluted manner, the workings of CDOs or Synthetic CDOs. OK it probably decently educates many who are clueless on these systems and correctly displays how the banks and brokers and investment trusts manipulate and suck the money out of the average working person through shady deals and counter deals but this is only just the tip of the iceberg.
The daylight robbery of the American people began long before 2008 when Nixon took the US Dollar off the Gold standard and turned it into fiat. The printing began robbing Americans of their savings, their salaries and their wealth on a drip drip basis. Asset bubbles already began to build long before 2007 and the SubPrime Scandal was only one of many pins that popped the bubble.
The banks and investment managers are crooks but the biggest crook of all is Uncle Sam and the Fed.
The Big Short has good enough suspense with great performances by Carroll & Gosling. Bale
tries a bit too hard on a slightly autistic caricature of Burry and Pitt is largely superfluous to the dynamic.
Its way better than Dubuque's "The Accountant" in its sophistry but well short of the reaches of "Margin Call" , "Inside Job", "Wall Street" "The Wolf of Wall street" or "Equity".
Nevertheless, more of this genre please.