Movies in Review: "Margin Call"

This film is packed with some of the most gifted actors and actresses in Hollywood...exciting. If that alone isn't enough to get you to the theatre to see, add to the fact that the film is a drama that focuses on a financial institutions 24hr period of the financial crisis started in 2007...even more excited. Well I'm not the only person who found all of these factors to be intriguing. It is an independent film, so it is not playing in a huge market. But every theatre that was showing it, was selling out!

Ummmmmm...well...we were all in for a big surprise when this movie turned out to be such a bore...yawn. It was so blah. I guess that had alot to do with the fact that everything that happens in the movie takes place the 1st 24hrs of the crisis. It may have made for a more exciting story if they took it beyond that. So within those 24hrs you get to listen to a bunch of numbers talk, that quite honestly was a little over my head. But I got the point. We all are living though this financial crisis, some people losing almost everything. This film is enough to make the average person a little jaded. The meat and potatoes of the film was good, but you will still be left feeling like there should have been more. The opening scene was one of my favorite parts, and all the scenes following with Stanley Tucci in it. Paul Bettany is on my least favorite actors list, but I somehow thought he would come through in this film...he didn't. I think he was lost. His accent kept changing. The first scene he was speaking like a tough NYer, which didn't really work for him. Later he falls into his normal accent and remains there...he's horrible. But the worst part is the way this film ends...enough said.

The material itself is interesting enough, just not interesting enough to keep your attention for 2hrs. If its not playing in your area you can count this as no big deal. For all others its not a bad watch from the comfort of your own home, and you have nothing else better to do...lol...B-