Amazing

Rating: 9/10 (30 December 2015)

I was blown away. Steve Carell is great, you forget it's him. Christian Bale...quirky, awkward, odd...a home run performance. Brad Pitt - very reserved, a deep thinker. Marvelous. Ryan Gosling also wonderful as a somewhat untrustworthy panderer.
The pacing was wonderful, building slowly...like going up the hill of a roller coaster ride...you know the drop is coming (as we all lived through the events of '07-'08), but it doesn't dilute the intensity of anticipating it's going to happen.
It helps to understand the technical banter, as some times it sounds like their speaking gibberish, but still very enjoyable. 9/10