People loose money all the time!! Why should we bother if a little guy working on minimum wage looses his savings in a stock that is highly recommended by the host of your favorite money show who dances like Brittany Spears while he touts the stock ?
This movie is about such a small investor who looses everything and decides to shoot the host of the show live on television just when the host has finished his Brittany dance.. And how much is the money involved - about USD 800 million which was portrayed to the investors as a loss due to the fall in stock price but in reality the entire amount has been siphoned off to a precious metal mine somewhere in Africa as we learn towards the end of the movie!!
[One more thorn on the lady liberty's crown, Mr. America and Uncle Sam!! I have wondered about such things myself over the last few years when I see all the mutual funds I had invested in go down systematically ! Can I trust the online news sources like MSN for the fund value? One mutual fund which has been highly publicized as the least expensive indexed fund even had my ex-wife's relative's name as the fund manager for some time !]
The movie turns into a hostage drama as pretty girls with lots of makeup run around like crazy trying to find the person to blame. Eventually the company's CEO is forced to visit the show as part of the hostage negotiation and the kidnapper's gun and bomb both now point to him rather than the host. So the movie goes a little deeper into the mystery (behind the fall of the stock-price) than most hostage movies but ends like most hostage movies do when the angry victim is shot by the police!!
Well directed by Jodie Foster. George Clooney, as the host of the show, seems a little funny in the beginning but gives a decent performance during the hostage situation by keeping the acting natural and low-key.
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