Margin Call

Agree. Good performance.
A bit difficult to understand the underestimated risks discovered by Mr Spoc.

I loved this movie for its subdued suspense. What I did not like however was the ending, not because it was unrealistic, quite the contrary actually. Don't want to spoiler it, but "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore" comes to mind :D

This gives a glimpse at the speculation industry that led to the 2007 worldwide financial collapse. There are a couple movies and a documentary to also watch to get a better idea of what happened. Too Big To Fail, The Untouchables on PBS and The Big Short. Anyway, well done while not getting into specifics on what caused the collapse. And on another note, it's a disaster to reverse the legislation put in place to stop it from happening again.

Terrible ending

Not a bad movie at all, but the pacing of the movie was too slow. Yeah, i know. It's about financial transactions, but "Too big to fail" made its job much, much better.

If you want to watch a good documentary about this topic, watch "Inside Job" with Matt Damon as the narrator.

This movie is okay. Not more.

6/10

UPDATE 06.062017: Boy, i was so wrong. I don't know why i rated it so low! Yeah, i think "Too big to fail" is still better paced. But I enjoy Margin Call on another level exactly like the other financal-dramas.

9/10

>"So, what you're telling me, is that the music is about to stop, and we're going to be left holding the biggest bag of odorous excrement ever assembled in the history of capitalism."

Crazy how much greed drives the market and innocent people get affected. That being said, this movie is fantastic. I love The Big Short so another movie showing a more serious and focused tone of the 2008 financial crisis was a good surprise.

I like the pyramid system of the company. There is always a boss of the boss. It has also caught my attention that the higher up, the less they know. They are commercial. While below it is full of engineers.

Wall Street and what happened in 2008 has fascinated me lately, and Margin Call was a nice way to see how things felt from the inside...in those crucial moments...when someone found out it was all going to hell.

Yes...we all called the investment banks and their employees for crooks and thieves after this hit the fan, and some of them were, but most just did what they were told. They tried to get out of there with the severance they were due...and probably felt bad about it, but did it anyway. Sad to say that is human nature, and most would have done the same.

Just that is what makes Margin Call so good. Chandor humanizes the people that started it all. They might not want to do it, and struggled with the morality of it all, but they did it anyway for that last check. Just as it probably happened all over the place at the start of this crisis.

Excellent actors doing their thing well, and a story that actually makes a good amount of suspense makes for a good watch. Margin Call is recommended viewing.

Excellent movie about the causes and responsibilities of the financial sub-prime crisis of 2008. The movie becomes at times a bit technical, but manages to show different aspects and points of view of the crisis.

_This_ is the movie that began my confusion about Penn Badgley being Adam Brody. I remember watching this the firs time thinking, "Man, that kid from The O.C. is a pretty good actor" only to find out after getting home that was an entirely different actor.

Also, this movie continues to prove that Jeremy Irons can _truly_ pull off being a cold-hearted bastard even when he's not committing regicide and subsequently banishing his nephew, or holding New York City hostage to rob the Federal Reserve.