Financial TV personality Lee Gates offers great insider tips
on his hit show "Money Monster", making him the money guru of Wall
Street. When one of his viewers, Kyle Budwell, loses all of his family`s money
on a bad tip, he holds Lee and his entire show hostage on air, threatening to
kill Lee if he does not get the stock up 24 and a half points before the bell.
Ratings of "Money Monster" begin to soar as the entire country tunes
in to find out just how much a man`s life is worth.
Lee Gates is a bombastic TV personality whose popular
financial network show has made him the money wiz of Wall Street. But after he
hawks a high tech stock that mysteriously crashes, an irate investor takes
Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn hostage live on air. Unfolding
in real time, Gates and Fenn must find a way to keep themselves alive while
simultaneously uncovering the truth behind a tangle of big money lies.
In the real-time, high stakes thriller Money Monster, George
Clooney and Julia Roberts star as financial TV host Lee Gates and his producer
Patty, who are put in an extreme situation when an irate investor who has lost
everything (Jack O'Connell) forcefully takes over their studio. During a tense
standoff broadcast to millions on live TV, Lee and Patty must work furiously
against the clock to unravel the mystery behind a conspiracy at the heart of
today's fast-paced, high-tech global markets.
Money Monster is a superb film. It is thrilling & dramatically intense, at the same time. Director Jodie Foster has done a masterful job, in maintaining the suspense & building the tension, throughout the film. Foster's directorial skills are as good as her supreme acting ability. This movie keeps you on the edge of your seat and keeps you guessing as to what's going to happen next, right till it’s shocking climax. The reason this film is so good, is due to its unforgettable performances.
ReplyDelete“Money Monster” zips by while it stays in the studio. When it ventures out into the streets of lower Manhattan in the third act, though, it loses its way. Ironically, the film gets loose and meanders just as it should be reaching a tight, tense climax. A hostage situation turns into a circus; what was once dramatic is now just plain silly.
ReplyDeleteI had higher expectations because of the level of talent involved and at the most generous if you can suspend your incredulity it would be a run of the mill thriller like Runner. For me it got just sillier and sillier as it went on till you get to a really lame ending. Margin Call and Big Short made you come out feeling smarter but here not so much.
ReplyDeleteI really enjoyed this movie. It was suspenseful, enraging, and had the right amount of levity. Julia Roberts and George Clooney were perfect. Jodie Foster did a wonderful job on the whole film.
ReplyDeleteGeorge Clooney plays an arrogant financial advisor on TV whose show is interrupted when a desperate young man sneaks into the studio and straps a bomb on the star.
No matter how many times Jack O'Connell waves his gun in the air and threatens to detonate the place with a bomb, you never truly believe anyone's life is in danger.
ReplyDeleteThe film delivers a dubious mixed message: It condemns the big-money investor and cable news cultures, treats the working class as expendable and ultimately offers forgiveness and redemption to the privileged celebrity rank to which Foster belongs.
ReplyDeleteThe film shows a very careful and functional style that knows rightly how to distribute the level of tension and humor throughout the film.
Julia Roberts is portraying the TV show director Patty Fenn. She spends most of the film sitting, talking with Gates through his earpiece but she gets a bit of action at the end of the film. Roberts is effective in the role but I think it was not a very challenging one.
ReplyDeleteThis film managed to keep me guessing how Clooney's character would get out of his situation until the very last minutes, which is something I experience rarely in theaters. We obviously know that his character will survive but how it happens is what is truly thrilling. The movie has many secondary characters and underplots, as it doesn't only focus on what happens in the studio where Clooney is held hostage, but it is never confusing and always fascinating.
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