But I would still recommend this, it's a really damn good movie once it really gets going.
I just don't think it does a great job at keeping you intrigued throughout its exposition, particularly in comparison to a documentary like Inside Job, that holds your attention from beginning to end. By and large, though, I would say that this film is very good in spite of the flaws that it has going for it. It's not much, but at least it's something. Steve Carrell really does steal the show here and he's, realistically speaking, the only character who has any actual depth. The acting is really strong, no surprise there when you have people like Ryan Gosling, Christian Bale, Brad Pitt, Steve Carrell, among many others. So, while the film does make you laugh, it also does show you the very real consequences of what happened, in spite of the fact that a lot of the characters in the movie cashed in on the collapse themselves. Meanwhile the people that caused this collapse and got billions and billions of dollars to bail themselves out, use the taxpayer money to give themselves bonuses. Not to mention the millions of people that lost their homes and their jobs. The people that end up cleaning up their mess are the taxpayers. The bankers and the fraud cause the collapse of the economy. The film is never preachy, but it does highlight the unfairness at display here. The film is certainly funny, but it also, very heavily, condemns the people that played a part in the collapse of the American economy and, really, a collapse of the world economy. And it's not like the movie is ever bad at any point, but it does take a lot of effort to stick with it during these moments where there's a lot of talk and exposition. The characters bet against the housing market and they just keep talking and finding out several layers that does reveal more intricacies of the fraud that's going on here, but it definitely does take a long-ass time to get there. Or banker talk, whatever the term is, without really so much in the way of character development. But, really, my biggest problem with the film, for the most part, is the fact that there's a lot of tech-talk. Though I am certain that there's moments where the film did take liberties and they didn't point it out. It's not necessarily winking, insufferable breaking of the fourth wall, it's certainly more informative. The film has some clever moments like that.
And there are times that the film takes liberties with the truth, but in those cases, the character breaks the fourth wall and acknowledges that that certain event didn't happen that way. And I realize the movie had to be this way in order to maintain as close to the real-life events as possible. Though, if I'm being honest, I think this film will be slightly more difficult to follow if you're not paying attention than Inside Job. This movie is very much like Inside Job, perhaps a slightly worse example of that, in that it takes a very complex subject and tries to make it so that even the least knowledgeable person about this subject can at least get some sort of understanding as to what happened and how it happened.
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