FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Aneesa Wardle The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

Phillipa Strong acting helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

Frank Liesenborgs One of the best docs ever made and afterwards you will realize that this will happen again. Maybe 2018 already when the Bitcoins and other virtual money will implode. Story tells the link between the 5 former investment banks, 2 fin conglomerates, insurance cos, the rating agencies and how they all put together CDOs, with AAA rating packed as MBS and insured against by the same players by CDSwaps. And more collusion. Enjoy it.

m_mehdi_m62 Informative documentary about the recession and global economy as well as crises and bubbles. This documentary is an eye opener to see how economy works in large scale and what is the government role on forming and controlling it.When economy of a nation is in jeopardy they majority within the society will pay the price and it take quite long time for nation to get back on it's feed as a whole. Every individual should know this stuff to some extend so they wouldn't fall pray of politics and bubbles.As they say history repeat itself over and over again and people would never learn...

blanche-2 "Inside Job" is the story of the big bank bailout and all of the criminals behind what happened and how it happened. By criminals, I'm talking about the heads of security firms, and people in the administration, those people.I already knew this, but it bears mentioning again.This is just one nugget. When Bush appointed Henry Paulson to be Secretary of the Treasury, Paulson by law had to sell his $425 million of AIG stock. Thanks to a law pushed through by the other Bush, he didn't have to pay one dime of taxes on it. Not a cent. Meanwhile, the IRS is harassing me to file my taxes (which I am not required to do because I don't owe money) and says if I don't, they're taking away money I receive to help pay for my medications.As the documentary said, the rich have gotten richer, none of these criminals who put through the subprime loans and gave anybody off the street a mortgage has faced charges, or had to return any money.If you aren't aware of what a Fascist government is, here it is, from FDR's speech before Congress in 1938: ownership of Government by an individual, by a group, or by any other controlling private power. As one gentleman stated in this documentary, we are a Wall Street controlled government. President Obama promised all kinds of regulations. We didn't get any. Why? The billions paid to lobbyists by Wall Street. In any other venue, this would be considered bribery. In government, it's business as usual. The tax reforms made by Bush helped the wealthiest people who make up 1% in the country. Not you, not me.This is a very depressing look at how the securities firms fought regulation of their scams (which were being given triple A ratings), how the administration, Bernake, the SEC, how everybody looked the other way, how anyone who said anything about regulation was told to keep his or her mouth shut and not pursue it. The same people are still in power. They're paid consultants, they work in the government, they are presidents of universities. They ran their companies into the ground and walked away with millions and millions and millions of dollars. And they plan on doing it again.Watch this, but have a barf bag nearby.

Christopher Reid As with another Charles Ferguson documentary (No End in Sight: Iraq's Descent into Chaos), the people being interviewed in this film seem to fit clearly into two types:1) The informed and decent people that saw the corruption and evil occurring. They anticipated the impending disaster and tried to prevent it or alert people to it but were completely ignored and minimalised. They are still shocked and frustrated about it to this day.2) The people who were a part of the problem and profited greatly. When questioned, they can barely string a sentence of words together or look the interviewer in the eye because of their obvious guilt and confusion. The filmmakers are well-researched and direct and leave the interviewees scrambling for explanations.Inside Job is sickening. I feel like I now understand roughly what caused the global financial crisis. How can those people sleep at night? I'm reminded of the holocaust and the problem of deciding who was responsible for the killing of so many innocent people. "It wasn't me, I was told they were just having showers!" "I just created the poison gas, I didn't know what they were going to use it for!" "I was following orders!" "I managed some of the logistics, sure, but I never came within miles of any of it!" "Everyone was doing it, I didn't have a choice!" Everyone distances themselves from what's really happening. There are too many layers and it becomes vague who was responsible for what.The banks seem to have done something similar. The system fell apart in so many places. It had so many layers adding their little bit to the corruption and lies. And maybe most problematic of all - none of it was properly regulated. Nobody felt a need to carefully scrutinise things when they were making so much money selling lies. Monetary incentives created all kinds of conflicts of interest.And then when it all falls down, they point their fingers at the other parts of the system. They claim they were just giving opinions or that they couldn't have known an investment was bad. But really they didn't care at all because they knew it was only innocent people external to the system that would be the losers. They believed they'd get away with it and it seems they did. They get their huge bonuses and many retain powerful, high-earning positions today.I'm both interested in economics and convinced that its almost completely meaningless. As one man said in the movie, why are these financial engineers making 4 to 100 times more than actual, real engineers? Does economics have anything to do with reality? He analogised that they sell dreams. But who holds them accountable when those dreams turn out to be nightmares?Obama promised changes but it sounds like they ended up being few and very watered down. What power do we have against these millionaires and billionaires? They can lobby, buy or persuade anything or anyone. It seems they control the U.S. government. What are we meant to think? Perhaps the worst feeling is similar to when JFK was assassinated. Who did this and why? We just want to know. Cowardly, invisible crimes are the worst.