$upercapitalist Reviews
Top CriticThe dull, hectoring financial melodrama "Supercapitalist" has all the spark of a high school assembly skit about not letting friends drive drunk.
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| Original Score: 1/5
Whatever the makers of "$upercapitalist" had in mind, what they've created is a clunky and cliched melodrama set in the world of international high finance.
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| Original Score: 1/4
culturevulture.net
$upercapitalist" exposes the heady, fast-paced, amoral world of New York/Hong Kong high finance
A Walmart "Wall Street," the hedge-fund drama "Supercapitalist" is junk merchandise stamped "made in China."
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| Original Score: 1/4
Dry as new bank notes and doggedly uncinematic, Simon Yin's "$upercapitalist" approaches the seamy side of international finance with a story as stale as the subprime meltdown.
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| Original Score: 1.5/5
Filled with enough clichés (finance culture seems to have the same frat-boy DNA the world over, bro) to be broken up and sold in pieces as junk material.
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| Original Score: 1/5
AV Club
$upercapitalist seems naïve about both the market and the humans who operate in it.
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| Original Score: C-
Slant Magazine
Ultimately plodding and resolutely old-fashioned, a corporate thriller for folks too square to indulge the possible existence of hungers so strong they must be satisfied at any cost.
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| Original Score: 1/4
Lensed with a tiresome gloss meant to mimic the seduction of the Asian metropolitan high life and filled with clumsily didactic talking points and inadequate performances ...
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| Original Score: 1/5
Even caped do-gooders couldn't save Supercapitalist...
Compuserve
Makes you wonder whether Britain and China were wrong to allow Hong Kong to remain a free-market capitalist province--though the movie does not compare in quality to "Wall Street."
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| Original Score: B
