However, given the low budget and the excellent cast, Margin Call did a reasonably good job in portraying the greed not only of Wall Street, but also of everybody's. There are a few lessons learned from this flick: money can't buy you happiness; the current global economic recession is the outcome of universal greed; and corporate slaves have to be sacrificed when the going gets tough.
Even if you don't like the story, you must like the stellar cast: Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Demi Moore, Jeremy Irons and Simon Baker (from The Mentalist). Paul Bettany has always been a great actor, but he outshines everybody else, even Irons and Spacey, in this one. Well, he plays a gum-chewing, foul-mouthed investment banker who nails why his firm is in the doldrums - these brokers are there to save their bosses' asses and to save the normal people and everybody is the victim of their own greed.
His speech towards the end sums up the destiny of Wall Street: "...People want to live like this in their cars and their big f...ing houses that they can't pay for....I take my hand off and the whole world gets really f...ing fair really f...ing quickly and nobody wants that. They say they do, but they don't! They also want to play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. That’s more hypocrisy than I’m willing to swallow. F... them. F... normal people!"
Demi Moore doesn't have a huge role in this film, but she has aged a lot - not all the plastic surgery in this world could save her from reality. And this movie was shot prior to her breakup with Ashton Kutcher. Cut that waist-long hair and maybe she'll look a bit younger?
If you like this movie, go rent the DVD Too Big To Fail and this will pale by comparison. If you don't like this movie, then all the more you'll have to see the made-for-TV movie starring every good actor under the sun including a cameo role of Christine Lagarde before her ascension to the IMF throne.
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