A good movie

When I first heard about this movie, I actually had some mixed feelings. Indeed, it was dealing with a fascinating story and there was a stellar cast involved (Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Brad Pitt, Marisa Tomei) but Adam McKay in the directing chair? I mean, so far, the guy had only directed some raunchy comedies starring Will Ferrell. Eventually, it turned out to be a critical hit and many thought it might even win the Academy Award for the Best Picture but it eventually lost against ‘Spotlight’. So, with all this in mind, I was quite eager to check the damned thing but, after all, it turned out to be a decent watch but I can’t say it really blew me away. First of all, I’m glad I saw before  ‘Inside Job’ and ‘Margin Call’ as it made it much easier for me to follow all these financial terms but, on the other hand, as a result, I had already saw 2 great movies about this subject and, in my opinion, this 3^rd picture wasn’t really an improvement. Basically, the only thing they really did was adding a flashy directing style but even this was already done a few years back in ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ and, of course, McKay is no Scorsese. Finally, even though the 4 characters were quite interesting, we hardly spend enough time with any of them to really get have a connection with these guys. Still, pretty much like with ‘Spotlight’, even though I think it is rather overrated, it was still dealing with a spellbinding story, it was also quite entertaining and I think it is definitely worth a look, especially if you like the genre.