A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

This movie not only indicts the corrupt practices of stock market companies but also critiques TV companies who, by dumbing down financial advice shows, can induce gullible or ill-informed people into making disastrous investments. It illustrates how investors who can least afford to lose their money, are often the greatest victims and roundly ridicules the absurd kind of spin that's often used by PR people to try to defend the indefensible.The good news is that all of this is done in the context of a fast-moving and highly-entertaining hostage drama that's compelling to watch and never gets too heavy-handed. It's well-written, well-acted and features an interesting group of characters who are all changed in various ways by what they experience.Fast-talking Lee Gates (George Clooney) is the host of a cable TV show in which he advises his viewers on all matters relating to their finances. His style of presentation relies on a lot of showbiz-style razzmatazz and a considerable amount of ad-libbing which is a continuous source of annoyance to his long-suffering director, Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts). In his latest show, he's due to interview the CEO of a investment company called "IBIS Clear Capital" whose stock mysteriously collapsed and left its investors with losses that amounted to $800 million. After being informed that Walt Camby (Dominic West) won't be available to interview because he's had to fly to Geneva at short notice for a business meeting, Lee has to make some last-minute adjustments to his show.A little while after the show has started, a delivery man walks onto the set, pulls out a gun and orders Lee to put on a vest that he says is filled with explosives. Kyle Budwell (Jack O'Connell) had invested in the IBIS stock which Lee had recommended to his viewers and had lost $60,000 which had been the entire sum left to him by his late mother and was all the money he possessed. He's furious and wants to know why Lee's advice was so wrong and why IBIS had lost so much money so quickly. He wants straight answers and is prepared to blow everyone up if he doesn't get them.As the hostage situation continues, the ultra-cool Patty Fenn who had originally pulled the plug on the show puts it back on air at the insistence of Kyle and prompts Lee through his earpiece on the right things to say to avoid provoking his captor. In an effort to get the answers that Kyle wants. Patty and Lee manage to get IBIS Chief Communications Officer, Diane Lester (Caitriona Balfe), on the show and she claims that the company's losses were attributable a glitch in one of their trading algorithms. Not only does this not convince Kyle but it also sounds less than credible to Lester who then embarks on the course of action that ultimately leads to the real reason being uncovered."Money Monster" is enjoyable to watch because it tells a topical story and features content about big companies and PR spin that chimes strongly with the kind of views that are most commonly expressed by members of the general public. George Clooney and Julia Roberts excel in making the changes their characters go through seem perfectly understandable and Jack O'Connell, in a strong performance, expresses Kyle's anger, desperation and frustration at being financially ruined by the actions of cynical individuals who are not only infinitely more powerful than him but also seemingly don't have to take any responsibility for the misery that they cause to others. Ultimately, this is a fine movie that impresses by simultaneously entertaining and providing food for thought.

This was an easy 8 until the last 5 minutes of the film where all the good work of the last 90 minutes was just utterly fumbled.Shame with such a great cast that the script just kind of fell apart at the pivotal point where a really good point about where our world is at with capitalism just crumbled to mush.

This movie is about a man who is a host of an economic TV show. One day, stock price falls sharply, and a man who lose his all fortune takes him as a hostage. I feel little funny when the host compares the host's misery with the man's misery to calm down the man. The host says that you have only a child, but I have married three times, so I have to pay compensation money. I just think he says a joke. I also cannot imagine the host cooperates the man's revenge to the company that make the stock price low. I cannot believe it because I cannot cooperate with the person who point a gun at me. The man also puts a gun on the table, so the host can snatches it, if he tries it. I do not like this movie because I cannot feel tense in spit of the suspense movie. I would like the host to persuade the man more intelligently. I also cannot imagine the ending and I think it will be a happy end.

(Originally reviewed: 23/02/2017) Jodie Foster's most recent picture is not necessarily a bad one, just a borderline average and uninspired one, that like Elysium, can't sustain a decent story from beginning to end. Now I loved 2011's The Beaver and considered it one of the best films of that year, there she was dealing with the subject of clinical depression, and the film was both sad and very funny, with its dark blend of comedy, but with 'Money Monster she has gone backwards, the story isn't particularly interesting and the second half is a typical string of clichés where's the bad guy and the hostage take a trip outdoors, and I'm sick of this type of film; the picture does not end with a bang but with a shrug of the shoulders, and I expect much better from a talented director like Foster.The story is very ordinary and routine; Clooney play's Lee Gates, a Television host who advertised a trust that could not be trusted, this lost people a lot of money, and one man in particular played by Jack Connell (Kyle Budwell) decides he has to do something about it, so he walks through security and interrupts the show, creating a hostage situation, but in truth only one man is in real danger of being shot, and that's Lee, his Boss played by Julia Robert's talks to him through an ear piece letting him know what's happening outside of the situation and so forth, but Kyle is aware there just staling so the police can get there and defuse the situation, during this Kyle rants about what he wants, or doesn't and not much is actually revealed till the half way point, until his pregnant wife gets brought there to speak to him through a live television feed and pretty much humiliates him on live TV, he gets angry sits down with his back turned and one by one hostages leave the building via the police and that's when it gets absolutely routine. They find out that the man in charge of the company played by Dominic West (Walt Canby) is actually behind his money loss and from then on it's a literally slow pursuit to confronting him about it, and if you have seen a film about hostage negotiations before, you'll know someone gets shot, and the film ends with two people eating takeaway while watching the TV reveal the politician's corruption and that's basically the entire film, and at the end of it all, I wasn't impressed, I felt the whole thing felt largely uninspired, and lacked originality all the way through.There are positives though; the performances are good, George Clooney and Jack O'Connell are especially good, Julia Roberts is decent, Dominic West is pretty good and Lenny Venito is adequate as well, as Lenny the Cameraman, but in truth the performances were all watchable to an extent, with the exception of a bland Caitriona Balfe who play's CEO Diane Lester, a pretty face but not much else. I also thought Foster's direction was solid, the picture wasn't overlong and there is a couple of good individual scenes in the first half or so, which includes a decent sense of humour. However there was too much wrong for it to be a good film, including the uninspired writing, clichés and oh so predictable moments, and some real howlers like the dumbest security I've ever seen in a film, when a guy walks past with two boxes, they sit on their fat arses and simply let him in without asking for ID or for him to sign, which is completely unrealistic, and Clooney's character doing this stupid dance that was rather embarrassing. Overall the picture is merely forgettable, uninspired and can't outrun its predictable clichés and routine feel.