Inside Job (2010)
Average Rating: 8.3/10
Reviews Counted: 140
Fresh: 137 | Rotten: 3
Disheartening but essential viewing, Charles Ferguson's documentary explores the 2008 Global Financial Crisis with exemplary rigor.
Average Rating: 8.6/10
Critic Reviews: 31
Fresh: 30 | Rotten: 1
Disheartening but essential viewing, Charles Ferguson's documentary explores the 2008 Global Financial Crisis with exemplary rigor.
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Producer/director Charles Ferguson (No End in Sight) speaks at length with journalists, politicians, and financial insiders in order to offer a clearer picture of the economic meltdown that hit America starting in 2008. Academy Award winner Matt Damon narrates this unflinching look at the deep-rooted corruption that has left millions of middle-class Americans jobless and homeless as the major corporations get bailed out while paying millions in bonuses. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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All Critics (141) | Top Critics (31) | Fresh (138) | Rotten (3) | DVD (4)
You'll need a clear head to follow this impressive and angry American doc about the financial meltdown...
Top CriticThis scathing expose should be enough to alarm people all over the political spectrum.
Wall Street owns Washington. You might think you know this, but "Inside Job" makes you feel the enormity of it.
You don't have to know the difference between a credit default swap and a collateralized debt obligation to feel enraged anew by Charles Ferguson's thorough dissection of the country's economic collapse of 2008.
Whether it's parsing the definition of a derivative or detailing the bad faith of major financial institutions, the new documentary Inside Job approaches its deconstruction of the financial meltdown with laserlike focus.
[Ferguson] can get to a story later but provide so much more context that his film seems definitive.
This eye-opening documentary is critical of both parties in its search for answers about the causes of the 2008 economic collapse.
Who whacked the economy?
As a documentary, this is a clear-eyed, steadily building prosecution against Wall Street. But, in the end, Ferguson's film is just a moot trial in which the defendants have already escaped scot-free.
This is a powerful and coherent work that will explain where the money has gone. It just can't help get restitution against those who did it.
More entertaining than Wall Street 2 while saying infinitely more about the iniquities of those that claim to work for us.
This is a compelling documentary that will have you leaving the cinema absolutely seething.
Ultimately, Inside Job will not have much to offer those who follow financial news reports.
Inside Job offers a concise history in a documentary that speaks to everyone and knows exactly who's to blame.
Muchos aspectos técnicos probablemente se le escapen a quienes no tengan al menos un conocimiento básico sobre temas económicos y financieros, pero cualquiera podrá entender y compartir las conclusiones a las que llega este contundente documental.
A forceful argument about the dangers of unchecked greed and brazen lack of accountability.
Throughout, the interviewer goes beyond standard bland. From off-screen, his barbed questions are relentless in forcing heads to follow dotted lines and confront inconsistencies.
We want them to go to jail and realize the horror of what they've done? Is that too much to hope for? The answer may be too hard to face.
An insightful and very sorry tale of the worst kind of greed, this Oscar-winning documentary exposes the people behind the global financial crisis, men & woman who are still wealthy and still running the banking industry.
Inside Job is far more watchable than it should be.
Inside Job is essential and empowering viewing about institutionalised corporate greed
I've only scratched the surface of this intelligent, riveting and informative film, which I cannot commend too highly.
Ferguson is more IF Stone than Michael Moore and is genuinely interested in getting answers, keeping himself out of the frame and only allowing his voice to intrude on the talking-head interviews when blatant spin needs to be challenged.
Likely to be one of the most shocking and edifying cinematic experiences of 2011.
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- Narrator: Why should a financial engineer be paid four times to 100 times more than a real engineer? A real engineer builds bridges. A financial engineer build dreams. And, you know, when those dreams turn out to be nightmares, other people pay for it.
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- Narrator: For the first time in history, average Americans have less education and are less prosperous than their parents.
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In this scathing, well told expose, writer and director Charles Ferguson is somehow able to unravel the byzantine ins and outs of our current economic engine and expertly show us in layman's easy to understand terms things like derivatives and leverage, while exposing the greed and arrogance of those architects on Wall St.
I've never seen such a compelling, insightful tale that holds your interest while parading a series of talking heads into view. The masterful editing of interview, media footage and graphics give such insight and reveal the truth: we the people are owned lock stock and barrel by big business.
Surely it is Ferguson's aim to reveal this truth, and, like all documentaries, you can edit footage so as to best support your argument, but here the conclusions are so obvious that no matter how you spin it, the evil is right in front of you.
The arrogance of some of these "insiders" managed to amaze even jaded old me. To allow yourself to be interviewed and then look right into the camera and say that you can't see any conflict of interest when an Economics Professor is paid by a bank to write a favorable opinion vis a vis said bank is astounding.
In revealing this slimy good old boys network, where the insiders are all on each other's board of directors, and former bank executives end up as political consultants, or the reverse, when political appointees exit into the private sector and end up working for the investment banks that they were supposed to be investigating should make us all mad enough to demand that the system be forever changed and regulated - a dream that will never happen as these insiders own everyone who can effectively change policy.
Such a sobering bit of dismal information - the investment banks knowingly committed fraud that caused millions to lose their pensions, and yet not a single exec has been indicted for any criminal activity - that alone should tell you who really runs the show.