Director: James Cox
Year Released: 2018
Rating: 1.0
Two not-so-popular students, Joe (Ansel Elgort) and fast-talkin' Dean (Taron Egerton), want to be rich, so with the "guidance" of a former Wall Street trader (Kevin Spacey), they scam money from actually wealthy people to form a company (the "BBC") and, when it all falls apart (naturally), resort to murder. The "model" for this booze-and-drugs-and-girls-then-chaos affair is The Wolf of Wall Street, only without the texture and masterful handling of the material: from the beginning it's clear neither Joe nor Dean know what they're talking about with regard to the stock market and commodities (or gold and coal in particular), so they never seem like anything more than cocky morons - all that moxie! - whose ruin is not only expected but enjoyable. Spacey's knowing arrogance is an asset - it's like he stepped in from a much more creative movie running simultaneously - but everyone else, with their popped collars and Italian suits and Daddy's Money, is even more loathsome.
