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Rating: 7/10 (18 June 2017)

I would've given The Big Short an 8/10 if I just understood it better. I definitely get its premise and focus, and the ultimate plot, but I don't quite grasp the mechanics of the situation. This is in no way the film's fault, this one is purely on me.
For instance, when the movie ended, Michael Burry went to his board and wrote; +489%. I thought what had happened was, even though Burry was right, sadly because of the Bank Institutions Fraud, his $1.3 Billion investment dwindled to $489 Million (there is an email he sends), in a scrabble to sell off Swaps he purchased, thus perhaps dropping the value of the Hedge Fund to around -55%, especially since the Fund just kept losing more and more value due to the payments Burry had to make to those banks. But then underneath, was the $2.69 Billion total profit. So, is he closing down the Fund because the business murders ones soul or is he leaving because he lost, though cheated. There were many other points that maybe were a bit much for me to grasp, however, that is a plus for me with this particular film; it got me so invested, I wanted to understand every bit of it.
The Big Short is, the type of eye opener that makes one wonder if maybe, this is now finally being exposed, as a strategy to hiding an even bigger agenda. Get us to focus on something that happened so many years ago, to get our eyes off what's starting to happen now. In a nutshell, The Big Short awakens paranoia. Is that a good thing? As a film, definitely.
Christian Bale just blew me away. I loved Gosling, Pitt, Carell and even Magaro and Wittrock, but Bale, was amazing. Honestly, Carell too was amazing. The writing, the story, the directing, absolutely stunning. All this time (prior to watching the movie) I thought the main characters are all in this together, just to find that they're not... But, they are.
"They knew. They knew the taxpayer would bail them out. They weren't stupid, they just didn't care". That is just too, too profound. It's not a script. It's not fiction. This, actually, happened, in the very reality in which we exist.
This film is possibly an 8 and above out of ten, but, there were parts that I didn't understand, again, not because the film fell short, but rather because my knowledge lacked. So, 7.5/10.
P.S. Michael continues to flex his ability to foresee impending doom. A water crisis is not a movie anymore, it's happening, it's now. To me, to you, IMDb, United States to South Africa, from Paramount to all of us. Burry is not wrong... He is a genius. Ben Rickert too, is on to something.