An entertaining couple of hours

Rating: 8/10 (28 August 2016)

I went to see this on a whim knowing little about it. What I saw was a fast paced 'unbelievable' story that is apparently based on fact. The key actors all played their parts extremely well. Not a weak performance from anyone. The two leads Miles Teller and Jonah Hill make the film as you liked THEM (to begin with) but not what they were doing. The honesty of the narrative as our chief protagonist (David Packouz) slips further and further into moral turpitude is both refreshing and humorous. This once again indicates to me that there are no morals when it comes to big money (a Pentagon-inspired market akin to the Stock Exchange) and its' corruption so admirably defined in 'The Big Short', 'The Wolf of Wall Street' etc. Government waste laid bare. Corruption, dealing with 'enemies', the list goes on. Not only an entertaining couple of hours but also a depressing reminder of what makes the world go around.