Margin Call 2011

Another movie about Wall Street. Good plot and good story development, lacks a bit of more concrete information but passes the clear message that in the markets the small investors always loose in troubled times. Nice to see.

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

There was an assumption of audience knowledge that shouldn't have been there tbh. You have to have some knowledge about the 2008 financial crisis for a lot of this movie to make any sense. Kind of annoying, even if you do understand what's going on. They easily could've added a 5 minute scene to the beginning (or anywhere else really) that showed someone on a fixed income getting approved for a mortgage they clearly couldn't afford and it would've made the core issue way more clear for the audience. The hollow ending didn't do the movie any favors either.

This movie feels like it goes by an hour. Not a single boring scene, although some of the financial stuff I didn't fully understand.

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.

good movie. the senior partners emergency meeting at the beginning of the movie was excellent. Jeremy Irons was great in that scene as was Zach Quinto. The reset of the movie had me engaged but did not go beyond "good" for me.

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

A boring, forgettable corporate drama that doesn’t delve into its subject matter as deep as The Big Short does, nor does it bring the emotion/shock value of something like The Wolf of Wallstreet. I think it’s a big mistake to reduce a meaty, complex topic like the financial crisis to just another tale about corporate greed. Besides, this movie isn’t educational or entertaining about any of that. Instead, this is much more interested in depicting boring finance bros talking in rooms about who’s the bigger asshole. It’s like watching an episode of Suits if you’d take out the great characters and dialogue. They got some pretty great actors for this, but even people like Jeremy Irons and Kevin Spacey aren’t capable of creating good scenes when the material is so surface level. Like the world it’s depicting, the movie is also directed with zero personality. You can really tell this is made by someone with a lack of experience in directing feature films because of how flat the camerawork, editing and blocking are. I’m honestly surprised that this wasn’t developed as an HBO original or for tv, because that’s the feeling I got from watching it.

4/10

"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.

yada yada. too damn short.

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.

Great acting all around, especially by Spacey, Bettany, Irons, and Quinto.

As I strongly believe that most ratings are subjective and personal, I'm gonna rate this a 5, because, while I couldn't be bothered with the plot, other people might've liked it a whole lot more. Still, let's get real for a sec: the picture's pretty boring...

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.

must be very (big insult) to do what these that night and this morning to others to save them.

Great cast, excellent performances but the film is boring.

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

an All star cast in a Movie about the beginning of our dear world financial crises. Great performances made a good movie but in the end i gotta be honest... I still don´t understand it =) 7/10.

It was inevitable that Hollywood would pick the financial crisis as a scenario for a movie. This one is in my opinion one of the better ones.

The cast of this movie was exceptional good, both Kevin Space and Jeremy Irons their performance was very good. Overall this movie is a 7/10 in my opinion. On par with what its current rating is here on trakt and imdb.