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Emotionally enthralling and intellectually challenging. Andrew Garfield portrays his character's moral crisis very well, and Michael Shannon's snakelike speech is exceptionally written. Also interesting and successful is its invitation to analyze the workings of suburban social hierarchy. On a side note, if you plan to watch it, please do not pirate it. The movie has not had a very successful financial run, with the Blu-ray being sold exclusively at Best Buy. Good filmmakers don't deserve to have their reputations tarnished by poor returns; please show your support.

Dennis, a guy that is kicked out from his home due to eviction and then goes working for the agency that kicked him out (doing to others what has been done to him) to try to get his house back, stays constantly on the edge of his moral. "Am I doing the right thing now?" he seems to think every scene. The viewer is thrilled because the viewer itself tries desperately to give an answer to that question and help him, due to the "good guy" reputation that the director builds in the beginning, but of course no one can answer. Sure this is alone worth of watching the movie. But the real strong point of the movie is the beautiful depiction of the recession society of nowadays. You cannot decide to live an honest and full life with your family (as Dennis tries to achieve in every manner): you are either the one who kills or the one who will be killed. You are either a "good guy" that will struggle forever paying taxes, or the "rich bad guy" swimming in your pool, tryin' to cheat for a signature on a document that will kick the good guy out of his house. Fast scenes, fast moving cameras, all is needed to keep the pace high and the tension even higher, until the very end, when the music and the camera suddenly stop and Dennis stares at the sun with a shotgun that points on him.
7.5/10

Solid performance by Shannon and Garfield. Worth the time.

Good movie. It is about something that everyone has been talking about, but where there are still this details unknown from the public. Interesting. And by the way, nice performances for both Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon.

A really good drama very close to the real life. A moral dilemma of life choices. What would you do? What would you choose - money or your soul?

>"Only one in a hundred's gonna get on that ark, son. Every other pour soul's gonna drown."

Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon always bring their best no matter what movie they are in. Shannon plays such a good dirtbag and it never gets old, and Garfield knows how to make you feel so bad for him. In this you truly see how people struggling with the economy get fully taken advantage of and Garfield just adds to that sadness.

Good movie, great performances. Shannon's sleazy speeches remind me of Baldwin from Glengarry Glen Ross.

A good film, relevant and shocking.

Sometimes you do what you have to do. Amazing performances from Michael and Andrew, really Oscar worthy.