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Reviews Counted:48
Fresh:42
Rotten:6
Average Rating:7/10
Consensus: Maxed Out's presentation of startling facts and candid interviews put a human face on the issue of debt and financial insecurity.
Theatrical Release:Mar 9, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Author and filmmaker James D. Scurlock takes on the powerful financial industry in an insightful and infuriating documentary about credit card debt in America. As he crisscrosses the United States,... [More]
Director: James D. Scurlock
Given that James D. Scurlock's documentary Maxed Out is a resolutely uncinematic progression of talking heads -- and they're talking about a subject most of us would rather not even think about -- it's a remarkably entertaining film.
Top CriticIf you've ever had problems with credit card debt, this insightful doc will either be the most enlightening or most depressing one you see this year.
Oh, the stories Scurlock tells.
Top CriticMaxed Out is more ambitious than Morgan Spurlock's egotistical Super Size Me, but its also more scatterbrained.
At a time when our debt as individuals and as a nation is at an all-time high, Maxed Out offers a much needed look at this escalating dilemma.
Anyone who's ever tangled with a credit card company will come out of it with boiling blood and a vow to get out from under their infernal thumbs once and for all.
Maxed Out is sort of a plastic Super Size Me, where every interviewee knows that this is out of control, yet they feel hopeless and unable to deal.
Intelligent, informative and unusually entertaining docudocu errs only when it yanks too insistently on heartstrings.
Top CriticA movie that just might inspire you to snip some of those credit cards in half -- is a good movie.
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