Money Monster

2016
12
1 Std. 38 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

107.960

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Lee Gates (George Clooney) 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 (Jack O'Connell) takes Gates, his crew, and his ace producer Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts) 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.

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Der berühmt-berüchtigte Finanzguru und Fernsehhost Lee Gates und sein Produzent Patty werden in eine extreme Situation gebracht, als ein erzürnter Investor das Studio übernimmt.Der berühmt-berüchtigte Finanzguru und Fernsehhost Lee Gates und sein Produzent Patty werden in eine extreme Situation gebracht, als ein erzürnter Investor das Studio übernimmt.Der berühmt-berüchtigte Finanzguru und Fernsehhost Lee Gates und sein Produzent Patty werden in eine extreme Situation gebracht, als ein erzürnter Investor das Studio übernimmt.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

107.960

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Auszeichnungen
- 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
For scheduling reasons, Julia Roberts and George Clooney worked together very little in this film. Roberts shot all her scenes with green screen on the monitors her character watches throughout the movie.

Patzer
When challenged, Walt says that he did nothing illegal and it's "just business". However, in order to run a trading company, he'd have to know that shorting his stock before switching the algorithm off is textbook insider trading, and is highly illegal. Of course he could be deliberately lying because that's what he does, but Gates should also know this. Later when his charges are being read, insider trading is not mentioned.

Zitate
Patty Fenn: [final line] So what the hell kind of show are we going to do next week?

Verbindungen
Featured in Late Night with Seth Meyers: J.K. Simmons/Caitriona Balfe/The Wild Feathers/Will Calhoun (2016)

Soundtracks
What Makes The World Go Round? (MONEY!)
Written by Dan The Automator (as Daniel Nakamura) and Del the Funky Homosapien (as Teren Delvon Jones)
Produced by Dan The Automator
Performed by Dan The Automator featuring Del the Funky Homosapien

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Sure It's Entertaining But It's Also Rather Shallow

Money Monster (2016)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Lee Gates (George Clooney) is a hot shot financial TV personality who offers up advice on what stocks to buy and which ones to sell. His director (Julia Roberts) is on her last show when they've scored an interview with a big CEO but when he backs out they don't realize how worst the day is going to get. Soon Kyle Budwell (Jack O'Connell) bursts into their studio and on live television he takes over the show carrying a gun and a bomb.

MONEY MONSTER comes from director Jodie Foster and I must admit that I went into it with incredibly high expectations. Whether people like it or not Clooney had done many great movies and delivered many great performances over the past decade so I thought with him and Foster together we'd get a hard-hitting drama that would take down the ugly side of Wall Street. Well, the movie was entertaining while you watched it but afterwards I couldn't help but feel extremely disappointed because when you get down to it the film was pretty shallow.

There's a great film hidden somewhere in here but it seems that they had to simple everything down so that your average viewer wouldn't get lost. I can only imagine what this could have been if someone like the late Sidney Lumet had been able to make it and the screenplay was allowed to be much more hard hitting and really go after the bad guys. This film starts off on a highly unlikely plot device (getting into the studio so easily) and by the final act it completely falls apart with its rather stupid plot twists.

With that said, the movie is still slightly entertaining to a point. Foster does a good job in her directing duties but there's no question that a new screenplay was needed. Both Clooney and Roberts work extremely well together and both give fine performances. Clooney does a good job at playing the charm but as the drama builds he also manages to sell that. O'Connell is also very good in his role of the man who finds himself in a desperate place so he reaches for a rather dumb idea.

MONEY MONSTER has its heart in the right place but it just seems like one of those movies that doesn't want to be too serious or too finger pointing and instead of any hard hitting drama and questions we're just left with a rather mindless action film with an unlikely plot. It's really too bad because with the talent involved this should have been so much better.