Money Monster could easily be
a story ripped from today’s headlines. George Clooney plays a TV talk show host
on a news network that amazingly resembles CNBC and Julia Roberts plays his
producer. When an investor, who lost all of his money on a stock Clooney’s
character (Lee Gates) recommended, takes over the live broadcast at gunpoint
the clock starts ticking on this drama to find out how a major corporation lost
$800 million dollars of the investors money in one day.
The movie moves at a fast
pace. We quickly discover that some “human involvement” was at work at the time
the stock took a huge tumble and that the CEO of the company was not where he
claimed to be on the company’s corporate jet. It all unravels “live on the air”
while most of America
Clooney drives this movie.
He’s on camera for most of the film and carries off the task of holding the
audience for the entire story; both on camera for the TV viewers in the film
and for the movie watchers in the theater. The movie also has a few funny
moments that are a release for the intense drama on the big screen.
Money Monster runs for only
one hour and thirty eight minutes. I liked that. The movie tells the story
quickly and gets right to the payoff for the film. (I wish more movies were
like that.)
Money Monster is rated “R”
for strong language throughout the film and it also contains a few comical
sexual references. It’s not an epic film, but Money Monster is a satisfying one.
On my “Hollywood Popcorn Scale” I rate this movie a LARGE.
Hollywood Hernandez
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