Money Monster (2016)
Rated R
Starring George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Jack O'Connell
Directed by Jodie Foster
The Story:
Lee Gates (Clooney) is a charismatic financial adviser with his own high profile cable show. His producer (Roberts) is getting ready to leave after the show is over, when a man (O'Connell) sneaks into the studio and pulls out a gun. Suddenly this live show takes a decidedly darker turn and viewers are stunned as they watch Gates work to get out of this situation alive.
Overall, this was a pretty effective dramatic thriller.
It unfolds pretty much in "real time" as the show descends from what was planned to an unexpected hostage situation.
Clooney and Roberts work extremely well together, though their chemistry is a bit dampened by the fact that they don't share the screen with each other, they communicate through an earpiece.
Clooney gets a chance to run the gamut of emotions, though he seemingly is almost too cool at times, considering the danger he is actually facing.
That's probably the one thing that is mostly lacking from this film, is that actual sense of an edge that the gunman might snap and kill everyone.
We know he's not going to kill Clooney, so much of the dramatic tension is false.
You sucker yourself in as the audience to buy into the dread and despair of the situation, but you're well aware that killing the star of the movie makes for a pretty lousy movie, so you have to pretend something bad could happen to stay in the right frame of mind.
That's just my take on it though.
Not a bad effort, but could have ratcheted things up a notch or two to make this even better.
Final Grade: B-
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