Happiness = Ferraris

Rating: 2/10 (21 December 2006)

I was disappointed with this one, mainly due the film equating happiness with the pursuit of 'ferrari-esque' wealth and the sacrifices one could make to achieve it. Also, for the time it was set in, nothing was said about the 'black barrier' that Gardner had to break in regards to his goal of becoming a stockbroker, a predominantly white industry. His wife was pretty marginally drawn, and most others were one-dimensional at best.
It had that whole inside-joke feel of a wealthy man saying 'hey, i'd like to finance a movie about my life, is will smith available to play me?', but lacking in the charisma or actual humanistic challenges set out in a movie such as 'Ray', where this movie seems to have seeded from. However, if you are a Will Smith fan, it's a nice job from him.