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Freaktana A Major Disappointment

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Prismark10 Oscar winning director Barry Levinson had big success by teaming up with HBO on You Don't Know Jack.This time Levinson and HBO have teamed up with Robert De Niro on the true life tale of Bernie Madoff whose fake investment vehicle was exposed during the 2008 financial crisis. Madoff operated a Ponzi/Pyramid scheme where you robbed Peter to pay Paul.When you have movies such as The Big Short and Margin Call that have done a brutal expose of the financial crisis, The Wizard of Lies just felt redundant with an almost movie of the week sheen about it.The film had a confusing narrative and an uneven script. It wants to explain the investigation on Madoff, what his sons knew about the firm's precarious position as well as explain Madoff's investment fraud to the audience.It was best when it was at its simplest. Bernie Madoff telling someone he was a simple man from a humble family then throwing a lavish party where he wanted fresh lobsters caught that morning, not freshly frozen and clean plates. Madoff and his family lived an extravagant lifestyle, it was all based on other people's money. Madoff targeted wealthy Jews like him and royally ripped them off. Once he was exposed many of his victims found out that they were penniless.I found the film dragged and was rather boring. Despite a sterling performance from De Niro and being based on true, tragic events, it was just not interesting enough.

osmandenizsavas First off all,it is a biographic movie and this mean it has bad scene but completely ı think,movie is okay.Robert Deniro plays cheater role and remunurate the role.The movie show us "Life has big surprise and never say I'm okay".Finally if you watch simple and regular movie with eat something yeah that movie.

bettycjung 10/23/17. A decent TV movie about the Madoff debacle. This is the side that the public did not know that much about - what happened to the family. De Niro does a fine job as Madoff, a man swallowed by Greed, and Pfeiffer as his long suffering wife, who lost it all as well. Perhaps, a good lesson from all this is - Greed is never good, and that the piper will always get paid in the end.

jmarinko925 The Wizard of Lies is an excellent Bio film and depiction of real life events. Never is the viewer lost in financial jargon as the film goes to great lengths to accurately explain the crimes Bernie Madoff committed on the American Public at large and his investors. My only problem besides the long run time of this film is that it has no choice but to paint Madoff as a sympathetic character which is much more than he deserves. A victim of his own greed the fact that he was able to defraud and scheme on his own is amazing and terrifying at the same time. It makes the viewer question our countries financial structure and institutions. If one man can alone do so much damage to an already struggling stagnant economy how could this happen? Even worst still how many like him go unrecognized? Excellent acting and dramatic conflict is presented in the wizard of lies. A film that is as educational as it is entertaining.