Those 130 mins will fly by in no time

Rating: 9/10 (28 February 2016)

Movies about the financial world are not easy to make. You have to ensure that they are entertaining but still contain enough 'techno financial babble' to make it believable and still be understandable enough for the general public. For these reasons I feared 'The Big Short' might have been a bore but I was actually surprised how good it was. The movie contains a lot of humor and has a high 'fun factor' while the characters still use plenty of sector specific terms to make them believable as financial experts. 'Margin Call' avoided this mostly and had one of those exposition scenes where they explain to the monkeys in plain English and with daft metaphors what they are talking about. In this film they explain some of the more specific terms with a funny clip (here is Margot Robby in bathtub explaining C.D.O.'s) and that works incredibly well. The acting is top notch (I loved Christian Bale's eccentric Metalhead hedge fund manager character). Steve Carell again proves he can do more than comedic characters while the unknown supporting cast is also superb. The Big Short's 130 minutes ran by in no time as it has no problems whatsoever keeping you interested. This is one of my Oscar favorites for this year and I hope it rakes up some golden statues for the well deserved 5 nominations.