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Lack of good storyline.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama

Lee Gates hosts a successful TV show about investment tips. Posing as a deliveryman, Kyle Budwell invades the show, hangs a bomb vest round Gates' neck, and threatens to blow him up live on air unless he gets an explanation as to why an investment tipped by Gates left him penniless. As time slips away, the police try to figure out how to shoot Budwell without activating the deadman switch he holds.Money Monster - the name of Gates' TV show - is a simple, straightforward thriller. The linear story has no great plot twists, there are no huge surprises other than a general uncertainty as to exactly how it will end and, in many ways, this is a completely routine example of this type of movie.But it has three great performances at its centre. Up and coming English 25-year old Jack O'Connell as Kyle, gives a portrait of a man who is juggling a number of different problems, any one of which could push him over the edge and possibly already has. He is seriously scary and hugely sympathetic at the same time, a monster hiding a mouse. Julia Roberts, a serious contender for My Least Favourite Actress, is very good indeed as studio producer Patty. Just about to quit and take another job, she remains in place and uses incredible resourcefulness to keep both Lee and Kyle alive while simultaneously trying to track down the true story of what happened to Kyle's investment.And George Clooney as Lee shows us a man who is vain, thoughtless, shallow and cowardly, yet who hasn't entirely lost touch with decent values as he endures a situation which turns out to be something of an epiphany for him.What happened to Kyle's investment isn't vastly surprising, although the details of it and the piecemeal discovery are quite good fun towards the end of the movie. If I had a criticism, it is that there are wider issues (the morality of high finance generally) which are not addressed, but that doesn't matter too much: the film is mostly screamingly suspenseful. I'm not offering any spoilers about the ending, though - you'll just have to go and see it.Jodie Foster's direction, the performances, and a decent script elevate this straightforward thriller to well above average.

This movie not only indicts the corrupt practices of stock market companies but also critiques TV companies who, by dumbing down financial advice shows, can induce gullible or ill-informed people into making disastrous investments. It illustrates how investors who can least afford to lose their money, are often the greatest victims and roundly ridicules the absurd kind of spin that's often used by PR people to try to defend the indefensible.The good news is that all of this is done in the context of a fast-moving and highly-entertaining hostage drama that's compelling to watch and never gets too heavy-handed. It's well-written, well-acted and features an interesting group of characters who are all changed in various ways by what they experience.Fast-talking Lee Gates (George Clooney) is the host of a cable TV show in which he advises his viewers on all matters relating to their finances. His style of presentation relies on a lot of showbiz-style razzmatazz and a considerable amount of ad-libbing which is a continuous source of annoyance to his long-suffering director, Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts). In his latest show, he's due to interview the CEO of a investment company called "IBIS Clear Capital" whose stock mysteriously collapsed and left its investors with losses that amounted to $800 million. After being informed that Walt Camby (Dominic West) won't be available to interview because he's had to fly to Geneva at short notice for a business meeting, Lee has to make some last-minute adjustments to his show.A little while after the show has started, a delivery man walks onto the set, pulls out a gun and orders Lee to put on a vest that he says is filled with explosives. Kyle Budwell (Jack O'Connell) had invested in the IBIS stock which Lee had recommended to his viewers and had lost $60,000 which had been the entire sum left to him by his late mother and was all the money he possessed. He's furious and wants to know why Lee's advice was so wrong and why IBIS had lost so much money so quickly. He wants straight answers and is prepared to blow everyone up if he doesn't get them.As the hostage situation continues, the ultra-cool Patty Fenn who had originally pulled the plug on the show puts it back on air at the insistence of Kyle and prompts Lee through his earpiece on the right things to say to avoid provoking his captor. In an effort to get the answers that Kyle wants. Patty and Lee manage to get IBIS Chief Communications Officer, Diane Lester (Caitriona Balfe), on the show and she claims that the company's losses were attributable a glitch in one of their trading algorithms. Not only does this not convince Kyle but it also sounds less than credible to Lester who then embarks on the course of action that ultimately leads to the real reason being uncovered."Money Monster" is enjoyable to watch because it tells a topical story and features content about big companies and PR spin that chimes strongly with the kind of views that are most commonly expressed by members of the general public. George Clooney and Julia Roberts excel in making the changes their characters go through seem perfectly understandable and Jack O'Connell, in a strong performance, expresses Kyle's anger, desperation and frustration at being financially ruined by the actions of cynical individuals who are not only infinitely more powerful than him but also seemingly don't have to take any responsibility for the misery that they cause to others. Ultimately, this is a fine movie that impresses by simultaneously entertaining and providing food for thought.

This was an easy 8 until the last 5 minutes of the film where all the good work of the last 90 minutes was just utterly fumbled.Shame with such a great cast that the script just kind of fell apart at the pivotal point where a really good point about where our world is at with capitalism just crumbled to mush.

*MINOR SPOILERS* While the hostage situation that takes place on the set is certainly tense enough the film as a whole just doesn't work for me. The movie clearly wanted me to sympathize with someone who is barely a step below a terrorist with the excuse that this Wall Street guy is worse. I'm sorry, I know that the banks screwed us all over but if the director (Jodie Foster) wants my heart to bleed even a little for this punk she failed very hard. I spent most of the film hoping the SWAT guys would kill him quick. Film wanted to be another John Q clearly but I actually did feel for Denzel Washington in that situation unlike here. Likewise Money Monster wanted to wag its finger against the monied elite but failed to land any punches and settled for more of a shrug toward the situation as a whole and instead focuses on one CEO who may or may not have done anything illegal anyway. Having a hostage taker rage about how he lost all his money on a bad investment in this case really didn't capitalize on the controversy that Wall Street is facing right now.There also seemed to be an attempt to look at the public at large and how it reacts to seems to attach itself like a parasite to "breaking news" stories such as occurs in this film. I suppose like the morality of going outside the law to address a "wrong" like in John Q, here Money Monster wants to take a point from Untraceable and pass judgment on the age of social media. Again only doing so halfheartedly and only scratching the surface. Honestly it rather bored me as it took time away from George Clooney and Jack O'Connell the characters who really mattered here I wasn't expecting much and a good thing that as I wasn't too disappointed at this barely mediocre and preachy soap operatic film.