Matialth Good concept, poorly executed.

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Bergorks If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

Walter Sloane Mostly, the movie is committed to the value of a good time.

Ken Adams Only in hollywood would they make a movie where a guy holding hostage with gun and bomb is a victim. And this guy was clever enough to walk pass security but yet dumb enough to be detected wondering around on air with no clue? And before he put the bomb vest on to Clooney, no one could tackle him? There were like 5 other camera men and Clooney!

Fallen Eye No, Swahili is absolutely and unequivocally not spoken in South Africa. Not in anyway at all. Not a single part of South Africa speaks Swahili, whatsoever. And that is the type of humor this movie had. This is the kind of man, in his $1000 dollar suit, who himself is a cliché, would treat everything and everyone like a stereotype. The humor is legitimately funny, because it is genuinely, actual.Money Monster was compelling. I feel its greatest flaw was (given the fact that the whole hostage taking was a big part of this film), perhaps how the N.Y.P.D. handled the hostage situation. They seemed to lack a bit of that tactical finesse they're supposed to have. 1% possibility of killing the hostage taker is something I imagine is frowned upon, let alone the hostage himself. Yet, in Money Monster, the Captain was willing to risk the hostage, based on a 80% on 80% chance??! What kind of policing is that?However, I'll reiterate, Money Monster was gripping. As a viewer, you almost get yourself in a situation where you wonder, what if you were actually watching the news, instead of a movie? It's mention of viral vines, and that "extra" towards the end, after all the mayhem, getting back to his foosball game, also very actual, and Money Monster did that a few times pretty well. They may have not been realistic at points, but, they were actual at a few others.The plot was an interesting one. The vast majority of money is, air. So, air goes missing over night, people suffocate, and no explanation is given, but clearly, a reason exists, but it's not what they say it is. That, is intriguing, because, it's a subject that really is, more than just a movie. Commodities do this and that all day, based on that and this. The question is, the $800 Million question is; What is that, and what is this?I was pleasantly surprised with the film. George, Julia and Jack were more than adequate and Jodie Foster was competent. The score at points was superb, and I imagine Henry Jackman had a lot to do with that. I give it 7.4/10.

emilywes56 Classic Hollywood movie. I only put one star for my favorite actor Jack O'Connell that was great in his small role. This movie show us three specific things: people of television and media are good, police is good, and everyday life will continue to flow even if the system is entirely corrupted. I felt all the time that the film has not a bright or correct message about society or political issues. Also some Illuminati signs may indicate something about people on power, money and our global future. In the end, the "bad" guy said he was wrong, and the "good" guy took the shot.

Robert J. Maxwell George Clooney plays one of those financial news network know-it-alls, rolling up his sleeves and getting to work upping his predictions about some stocks and damning others. He's self centered and petty. He wears costumes and does the macarena at the introduction to his show, which is shot on a New York set full of elaborate displays of electronic junk. Julia Roberts, the show's director, is in the control room behind a glass panel, providing the voice in his ear. Then, during one routine but colorful show, Jack O'Connell sneaks onto the set, holds everyone at gunpoint and makes Clooney don an explosive vest. O'Connell, an ordinary working stiff from Queens, has lost his life saving investing in a stock that Clooney had pimped and that had then dropped like a plumb line, just like mine always do. O'Connell angrily queries Clooney about the $800 million lost in one day by Ibis Corporation. Well, the situation is tense, I can tell you.The technology was sometimes over my head. There were TV cameras and monitors all over the place and prominent use was made of smart phone like Blackberries and Blueberries and everybody is texting one another and shouting into microphones and making sure their earplugs were properly seated in the external auditory canals and I don't know what all. This sometimes induced a confused state of consciousness but didn't interfere with the essence of the plot. The CEO of Ibis had used a manual override on the algorithm (or "algo") and sneakily caused the stock to drop after shorting it. Something like that, anyway. Clooney, having just found this out, accuses the CEO of fraud. But is it? It sounds more like larceny of some sort, or maybe embezzlement. No matter.It was directed by Jodie Foster, who is smart and who knows her way around cameras. She does a decent enough job but the details of the script are torturous and sometimes you can get lost in them. Who's shouting to whom around here? And how in the name of Bog could she have let O'Connell get away with waving that pistol around so wildly -- and holding it sideways, something that became a cliché many years ago. It made me wince.Clooney is fine, as usual. He's a pretty good actor. There are a plethora of stars that play action scenes impassively, but when Clooney is batted around the set or has a pistol shoved in his face he looks genuinely scared. Have you ever seen (or imagined) Clint Eastwood or Arnold Schwarzenegger or Sylvester Stallone look truly scared? No? I thought not. The best they can do when threatened with lethal force is look mildly annoyed.Julia Roberts is Julia Roberts, looking no less good without ten layers of iridescent make up. Caitriona Balfe is just fine as Ibis's PR person, formally known as a chief communications officer. She's very sexy and she's Irish. But I felt sorry for the aggrieved Jack O'Connell. He overacts wildly, uses a fake New York City accent (he's Irish too), and has some sort of speech impediment, causing him to deliver a pale simulacrum of his most passionate lines. At the same time, he certainly LOOKS the part of the washed out urban loser.All together, not a bad movie but not a particularly well-done movie either -- not even a glimpse of Maria Bartiromo. Better to have to sit through "Money Monster" than to have invested in Lucent Technology.