Maxed Out (2006)
Average Rating: 7/10
Reviews Counted: 48
Fresh: 42 | Rotten: 6
Maxed Out's presentation of startling facts and candid interviews put a human face on the issue of debt and financial insecurity.
Average Rating: 6.7/10
Critic Reviews: 22
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 4
Maxed Out's presentation of startling facts and candid interviews put a human face on the issue of debt and financial insecurity.
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Per its title, James D. Scurlock's virulently angry muckraking documentary Maxed Out examines the many problems associated with escalating U.S. consumer debt. Scurlock places his weightiest emphasis on the ends of the spectrum rooted in extreme evil (read: abuse) -- such as the capital lenders who wheedle poor farm families into assuming unmanageable loans and college students into placing massive amounts on credit cards. He also touches on the end rooted in extreme tragedy, such as the debtors
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This muckraking documentary on America's personal-debt crisis lays bare the predatory practices of credit card companies and the Bush administration's cozy relationship with the financial services industry.
Top CriticDo not see this film if you worry about money.
Maxed Out focuses on how much we're in hock without ever really wondering why we need to buy.
This scattershot exposé of usurious banking practices examines why the most vulnerable segment of society is victimized by the lending industry and finds a simple answer: It's obscenely profitable.
Maxed Out exposes the credit card sham for what it is, and fingers the hustlers who perpetuate it.
To maximize your return on this useful report, sit through the end credits where Spurlock deposits some of his best material.
Uma análise detalhada e preocupante sobre a política empregada pelas operadoras de cartões de crédito no intuito de manterem os clientes numa situação de endividamento constante - ou melh... pior: crescente.
When it comes to credit, it pays to be informed.
One of the most effective of the many recent agitprop documentaries.
The propagandistic Maxed Out is ultimately undermined by the fact that, as vile as many of its corporate interviewees seem, its everyman subjects are often just as culpable in creating and perpetuating the whole mess.
shines a light on one of the most pervasive (and potentially disastrous) problems affecting our society today
[A] dispiriting expose of predatory lending scams that mislead even smart, educated people and a credit-card industry that is designed... to work against the ordinary consumer...
It's a slapdash affair... yet still winds up with a raw, gritty power.
...the film will make you think twice about spending money you don't have.
A much-needed wake-up call to face the fact that state-sanctioned usury and exorbitant late fees are destroying the prospects of working class citizens of ever achieving anything approaching the American Dream.
As a film, Maxed Out occasionally loses its way with glib choices (get ready to get tired of the song Money) and odd diversions (a segment with a Realtor begins the movie with a whimper, not a bang). But as a cry of outrage, it's spot-on.
What Spurlock discovers in his scathing investigative inquiry, is a shocking national situation of debt slavery, with all the earmarks of science fiction.
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- Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (DE)
- Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit and the Era of Predatory Lenders (UK)
