Review of Money Monster (2016) by Dave G — 02 May 2018

A solid, middle of the road glossy drama with good efforts from the main protagonists. It's all too glib, though to make any lasting impact. Knocking financiers is way to easy and it could have done with exploring some of the complexities only hinted at in the script to make it a worthy contributor to the debate, an unusual lightening of load given the director and star's credentials in this department.

You could only see it going one way, a fact not helped by Netflix using a still shot for it's menu that gave the end away. It was all good fun and the action slickly presented. But the gunman was all too forgivable in a you simply couldn't in real life, some dumb loser with a gun and a moral crusade taking on the big, bad rich guys.

But he did scarecrow shit out of a lot of people with families and lives. Two moments stick in my mind. The end game with the banker touches on how we only see the corruption when we aren't making a profit, a profundity not explored.

But the truest moment arrives when the action ends and the rapt TV audience goes back to life actions usual. It's how it is in the real world and it's how I felt at the end of this movie. Worth a couple of hours of your time, but no more than that.