Not, in Fact, Short

Rating: 7/10 (21 August 2016)

Started this movie with two friends. One who was very interested. One who was not. After about 10 minutes of watching, my bestie (who was not) looked up from her phone and felt confused. But she wasn't the only one.
Don't let the opening of The Big Short make you feel too confused to move forward. Don't panic and start frantically g-chatting your economist friend Jim. Even if you come to the movie with very little understanding of the subprime mortgage crisis, things will get more clear.
This, in part, due to the lovely, informative sequences the producers incorporated where sexy women or celebrities explain things like the subprime mortgage crisis from a bathtub, while drinking champagne (this clip in particular should be used in high school US history classes for as long as the subprime crisis is relevant).
The acting is really in the pocket. Even though Christian Bale has to spend a lot of time showing us that his character loves to do math, bust myths, read Adam Smith and listen to Metallica, he manages to make the part NOT idiotic.
It's not a short movie, but it doesn't have the feeling of dragging on either. Try it out.