MONEY MONSTER

MONEY MONSTER is Hollywood revisiting MAN ON A LEDGE this time mixing in a lot of Jim Cramer. The plot becomes more preposterous as it goes along. It's one of those Hollywood films that feels like it must have had a whole bunch of uncredited screenwriters doctoring up the patched-together screenplay, stealing and lifting tropes from dozens of other movies. Not a great directorial effort by Jodie Foster, who I'm sure was inspired a bit by her work with Spike Lee's INSIDE MAN, which is a much better film, much. This features George Clooney being George Clooney, and Julia Roberts doing her best duck-lips facial expressions since ERIN BROCKOVITCH. It hadn't occurred to me how it's become her trademark in the same way Robert Duvall mastered the pensive tongue-touching-teeth facial expression decades ago and used it in every damn movie since. Or for that matter Harrison Ford's index finger in every movie since STAR WARS. MONEY MONSTER's preposterous plot really gets in the way of enjoying this more but it's passable entertainment, especially if you stream it some time as part of a monthly subscription like Netflix.

SCORE: 55.

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