Money monster
| Movie | |
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| German title | Money monster |
| Original title | Money monster |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2016 |
| length | 99 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 12 JMK 12 |
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| Director | Jodie Foster |
| script |
Alan Di Fiore , Jim Kouf , Jamie Linden |
| production |
Lara Alameddine , George Clooney , Daniel Dubiecki , Grant Heslov |
| music | Dominic Lewis |
| camera | Matthew Libatique |
| cut | Matt Chessé |
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Money Monster is an American thriller of director Jodie Foster from the year 2016 . The main roles are played by George Clooney , Julia Roberts and Jack O'Connell .
The film premiered on May 12, 2016 in Cannes (outside the competition) and was shown in German cinemas on May 26, 2016.
action
The stock market guru Lee Gates presents the tabloid financial program Money Monster on the American television channel FNN with stock market tips for private investors. One topic of the current broadcast is the crash of the IBIS Global Capital share the previous day, which cost shareholders $ 800 million. The company cites a glitch in the algorithm of its automated trading system as the cause . Walt Camby, CEO of IBIS, is to take a position on this in an interview. However, Camby cancels at short notice as he is on his way to a meeting in Geneva .
Shortly after the start of the broadcast, an alleged parcel delivery man gains access to the New York studio and forces Gates to put on an explosives vest in front of the cameras and at gunpoint. The financially ignorant man lost all of his modest fortune after investing an inheritance of $ 60,000 entirely in IBIS stocks. The hostage taker demands an explanation of the depreciation of his facility, previously recommended by Gates as "safe", and threatens to shoot him and detonate the explosives if he does not receive any responses.
The New York City Police Department is alerted and Patty Fenn, the show's director, learns the name of the hostage taker from the police a short time later: Kyle Budwell. Fenn shares this information with Gates through his wireless earbuds, whereupon Gates tries to reassure Budwell. Budwell claims to be holding a dead man's release trigger for the explosives vest. Police find out that the likely signal receiver on the vest is just above Gates' kidney. She decides to shoot the receiver so that Budwell can't detonate the vest. She wants to accept a possible, but rather unlikely, fatal injury to Gates.
While Gates is talking to Budwell, a live link goes through to Diane Lester, who is IBIS Chief Communications Officer . She confirms to Gates that there is nowhere to reach Camby. Budwell is not satisfied with this explanation and threatens to detonate the explosives in Gates' vest. He also does not accept Gates and Lester's offer to reimburse him for the amount of money he has lost. Lester continues to insist that the algorithm is too complicated to explain and that it was a computer bug that caused the impairment. In response, Budwell shot furiously at the monitor on which the interview with Lester was broadcast. Lester, however, is also dissatisfied with her explanation and contacts the South Korean programmer of the algorithm, who explains to her that the algorithm is safe and that such an error can only occur through human intervention.
The police have since found Kyle Budwell's girlfriend, who is expecting a child. The hope that Budwell could be reassured by speaking to his girlfriend is dashed because the girlfriend insulted him during the live broadcast as a failure who gambled away the family's future with the failed investment. The police have to cut the connection. Gates feels sorry for Budwell and assures him that he will clarify what the real cause of IBIS 'loss was.
When Camby surprisingly lands in New York, Lester secretly flips through his passport to find out that Camby was not in Geneva but in Johannesburg . With this information, Fenn and her team contact two Icelandic hackers who try to find out everything about Camby's travels. In the meantime, the police have occupied the studio under cover and evacuated almost everyone. Only Gates, Budwell and a cameraman remain. When a sniper shoots the receiver of Gates' explosives vest, he just misses it, as Gates jumps aside at the last moment due to Fenn's warning. Budwell and Gates leave the studio to confront Camby. Accompanied by the cameraman Lenny and a large number of police officers and onlookers, the three of them go to Federal Hall , where he has retired. The producer of Gates' show tries to give him an earphone. The terrified hostage taker then shoots him, which causes a panic. At this point the SWAT team decides to take out Budwell at the earliest opportunity. On the way, Budwell tells Gates that the receiver on the explosives vest is just a dummy . Thereupon Gates offers him to face the police or to go ahead with the project, in which he wants to support him. Budwell chooses the latter, and both maintain the impression of being held hostage with explosives to the public and the police.
In Federal Hall, Budwell is barely able to prevent Camby from escaping and now forces him to put on Gates' vest. Gates announces to the audience that the announced interview with Walt Camby will take place after all. The Icelandic hackers have in the meantime collected a lot of material, so that Gates Camby confronted with the truth: Camby was in South Africa because he had bribed miners to strike there. As a result, the market price fell, which IBIS used to invest $ 800 million in the mine. With the end of the strike, IBIS would have made an enormous profit because the price of the mine share should rise again. The plan failed because the miners under union leader Moshe Mambo continued to strike, the share price of the mine fell even further and the IBIS shares lost massive amounts of value as a result.
After forcing Camby to show remorse, Budwell throws the trigger in the direction of Camby , causing him to be shot by police. The broadcast of the hostage situation is ended and normal television programs continue.
Gates and his director Fenn are recovering at the hospital where their producer is recovering and watch a newscast reporting that the Securities and Exchange Commission has opened an investigation into Camby for international bribery. Fenn and Gates begin to think about the contents of the next issue of Money Monster.
background
Filming began in New York City on February 27, 2015 , after George Clooney began filming the 2016 film Hail, Caesar! had completed. Among other things, it was shot on Wall Street and in Federal Hall . For Julia Roberts and George Clooney, the film is the fourth collaboration after Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's 12 (2004) and Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002).
The film premiered at the Cannes International Film Festival on May 12, 2016 . In the United States it was released one day later, on May 13, 2016, and in Germany on May 26, 2016.
reception
German reviews
The film received mixed reviews. This is how Carsten Baumgardt judged film starts :
"Jodie Foster 's hostage thriller 'Money Monster', which is somewhere between ' Hundstage ' and ' The Big Short ', is entertaining, but clearly too simple - it cannot hold a candle to the two role models."
Moritz Holfelder from Bayerischer Rundfunk gives the film 2 out of 5 stars and judges:
“In her new directorial work 'Money Monster', Jodie Foster gives the cheated people a voice from Hollywood. However, she succeeds in giving a poorly differentiated moral sermon against the perverse practices of the big capitalists. "
Susan Vahabzadeh from the Süddeutsche Zeitung is enthusiastic about the film and says:
"[...] But otherwise it's really fun to watch the film, even if it's always clear that it can't end well."
Scott Orlin concludes after interviewing Jodie Foster:
“The film develops a tension like a kettle under steam, with Clooney and Roberts always on point. Foster has removed everything superfluous, the film shows what is necessary. And the best part: He even gives answers. The money for this cinema ticket is well spent! Very good."
Carolin Ströbele criticizes the inconsistency of Foster's direction for the time :
“It's probably the mixture of different genres that doesn't work out. The characters are too smooth for a satire, and the necessary drama is missing for a thriller. Because somehow everyone is a bit too nice for this world [.] [...] And so it is with the tension curve of Money Monster in the end like with the share price of the company Ibis. It falls into the abyss in just 90 minutes. "
Anke Leweke criticizes the "unresponsive camera work" and the focus on the action scenes for Deutschlandradio Kultur :
“Unlike Julia Roberts in the film, however, the director Jodie Foster has long since lost track of 'Money Monster'. Instead of dissecting the greed of the big capitalists in a highly concentrated chamber play to dissect the machinations of Wall Street, they are increasingly focusing on action and an all too banal showdown. "
In epd Film, Barbara Schweizerhof names the playful possibilities of the average film for her (2 out of 5 stars):
"The relativization - the real bad guys are still the bankers and brokers - takes the momentum away from the film's striking critical thrust, but does not prevent it from functioning as a very good, if slightly stale-tasting entertainment."
Cinema considers the film to be told as "straightforward and complex at the same time" and awards the highest rating (100%):
"The fact that [Jodie Foster] tells her story in real time, dispensing with the trivial and concentrating largely on the events in the TV studio, gives her explosive thriller an enormous tension."
International reviews
For the New York Times, AO Scott praises the leeway that Foster gives her characters and their actors:
“What's equally striking about“ Money Monster ”is the presence, in supporting roles, of excellent actors best known for their small-screen work. [...] It's impossible for a single movie to give such performers enough to do, but Ms. Foster makes room for each one to have a moment or two for the highlight reel. "
“What is also striking about this film is the presence of the supporting roles, whose excellent actors are best known for their television work. [...] It is impossible for a single film to give all actors enough to do, but Ms. Foster gives everyone enough space so that they can have a moment or two in the best of the film. "
Web links
- Money Monster in theInternet Movie Database(English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Release certificate for Money Monster . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry (PDF; test number: 159714 / K).
- ↑ Age rating for Money Monster . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Money Monster. In: moviepilot.de. Retrieved May 28, 2016 .
- ↑ Carsten Baumgardt: The film starts criticism of Money Monster. In: filmstarts.de. FILMSTARTS.de, accessed on May 27, 2016 .
- ^ A b Moritz Holfelder: Film review: "Money Monster" by Jodie Foster. In: br.de. Bayerischer Rundfunk, May 24, 2016, accessed on September 10, 2019 .
- ↑ Susan Vahabzadeh: "Money Monster" in the cinema - Like "Tutti Frutti", only with shares. In: sueddeutsche.de. Süddeutsche.de, May 25, 2016, accessed on May 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Scott Orlin: Money Monster . In: TV Today . No. 11 . TV SPIELFILM Verlag, Hamburg May 28, 2016, p. 195 ( online [accessed May 29, 2016]). Online ( Memento of the original from May 29, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Carolin Ströbele: "Money Monster": Oh, you evil stock world. In: Zeit Online. May 27, 2016. Retrieved May 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Anke Leweke: New in the cinema: "Money Monster" - revenge for wrong financial tips. In: deutschlandradiokultur.de. Deutschlandradio Kultur, May 26, 2016, accessed on May 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Barbara Schweizerhof: Review of "Money Monster". In: epd-film.de. epd Film, May 17, 2016, accessed May 30, 2016 .
- ↑ Money Monster. In: cinema.de. CINEMA Online, accessed June 6, 2016 .
- ↑ AO Scott: Review: In 'Money Monster,' a Broke Investor Holds a Grudge and a Gun . In: The New York Times . May 12, 2016, ISSN 0362-4331 ( nytimes.com ).
