Adam McKay’s take on the 2008 financial crisis. It makes complex finance genuinely entertaining and infuriating at the same time. The trick is that whenever the movie gets too technical, it just stops and has a celebrity explain mortgage bonds in plain language. It works.
What really lands is the anger. A handful of people saw the whole system was rotten, bet against it, and got rich while everyone else lost their homes. There are no real heroes here, just people who were right. And almost nobody went to jail.
A finance movie that actually holds your attention. 4/5 stars.