Like "The Big Short" in style and substance, this Wall Street procedural is extremely well done, making it a lot of fun to watch private Davids take on hedge-fund Goliaths who dubbed them "dumb money." The whole cast is terrific, and Paul Dano holds it all together as the calm center of the hurricane.
Just a few questions/quibbles:
Why is it so poorly lit? Almost every scene has the look of photographs that were too heavily inked. Even outdoors.
The movie is relentlessly geared to a youth audience, which is fine, of course. I'm in my 70s and had no trouble keeping up (with a little help from Shazam), but I was a bit surprised how little concern there was about appealing to a general audience.
My only real criticism is that far too much of the movie repeats one monotonous aspect of the plot: people brazenly advising investors what to do, or what not to do, with their money. Every single investor gets nagged by someone-- partners, siblings, parents, friends, colleagues, classmates-- and nagging is as tedious in movies as it is in real life.
Just a few questions/quibbles:
Why is it so poorly lit? Almost every scene has the look of photographs that were too heavily inked. Even outdoors.
The movie is relentlessly geared to a youth audience, which is fine, of course. I'm in my 70s and had no trouble keeping up (with a little help from Shazam), but I was a bit surprised how little concern there was about appealing to a general audience.
My only real criticism is that far too much of the movie repeats one monotonous aspect of the plot: people brazenly advising investors what to do, or what not to do, with their money. Every single investor gets nagged by someone-- partners, siblings, parents, friends, colleagues, classmates-- and nagging is as tedious in movies as it is in real life.