A nice movie based on real events. Kevin Spacey is still a great actor, despite all the accusations. If you want to learn more about this story, I highly recommend you check out the 1987 version (longer, better and much more accurate!). I enjoyed watching it.
General impression: There’s something missing from the movie, I don’t know what. Raisins. That's the story we've seen! I agree, a criminal raid is often similar, but still a bit of unusual, if you try, you can present.
a) "+" There is a good cast: Ansel Elgort, Taron (beautiful, I can't help it, gives me peace) Edgerton, Kevin Spacey, Emma Roberts. Everything is great, but there is no pressure on one character. The central solo is Joe Gant (Ansel Elgort). But for some reason I don’t want to feel any emotions. That’s not sorry for the character, although he was in such a mess, be healthy! The machinations are sometimes strange, but you can assume that all the characters are young and stupid, but I do not agree with this. After all, Joe is the head of the group and a financial expert, which means that he understands with his head what he does, and he makes money. Only who is a fraud should know you, the audience. Let the story look like a dummy, but the heroes are not stupid. They have a goal of getting rich. That's another thing. But there is no easy money.
b) "-" Medium directing: as the creator of the film was made by James Cox (hu from it?!) Episodes often jump from one story to another. Of course, there is integrity, but the completeness from fragment to fragment is blurred. Because of that huge drawback, the movie can be made in 2 parts: 1 - a long beginning, which I really bored (for a long time everything was rocking), the transition to action and interest moved closer to the hour of the film. 2 - too fast turn of events, which in moments was clichéd and predictable. But watchable.
c) "+" Meaning: when you look at different angles, you will see the meaning of the film. There is a clear division into social classes (rich, poor). There is a specific plan and its consequences. And also well traced the concept of friendship and how easily it is forgotten when you need to cover your fifth point.
g) "-" Logic: rather its absence. Still, the banality of the dialogue and the way the characters behave are surprising. The story is real, but it's true, I don't know. And hardly anyone will know.
Who to watch: If you like crime tapes and you like the composition, it is quite. But expect some distant semblance, rather a parody of The Wolf of Wall Street. I'm not saying it's the same thing, but there are similarities in plot actions.
6 out of 10
The perception of reality is more real than reality itself.
Perhaps, the quote from the film, which I titled my review, can be used not only as a slogan for the film, but also as an explanation of what happened in reality, as well as the perception of the film by the viewer under the influence of criticism of the Western press (meaning all negative reviews).
I would like to note that the release of the film on the wide screens I was looking forward to long before the end of the filming process and, of course, before the flared up scandals around Kevin Spacey, which caused the “failure” of the film (low fees and public criticism).
Reading reviews and reviews, I hesitated to watch for a long time, afraid to be disappointed after such a long wait and expectations. Nevertheless, I dared and spent last night in the company of young “billionaires” (I take in quotation marks, because I am a billionaire). Anyway, watch the movie. I'm not sorry at all! The evening was not boring, on the contrary, bright, dynamic, exciting. Moreover, I wanted to “intercede” for the filmed story and raise her a little rating – to write a positive review.
Perhaps I am mistaken, but it seems that the authors of most reviews on the website of the KP very strictly judge (not under the influence of their perception of reality?), “scaring off” potential viewers. I agree that the film is not without flaws, but not so bad!
At the heart of the plot is a well-known old story, not a fiction, so the script can be evaluated only from the position of how it is told. And, as I said, it's pretty vibrant and dynamic. Moreover, everything is clear, logical and clear: the scheme of business of young people, the reasons for the success of the pyramid and the actions of the characters. Of the minuses, you can notice some “excess”: scenes of luxurious, enchanting life are shown in more detail and for a longer time and very quickly, even “boiled”, footage of murders and exposures, and the results of the trial were told by a voiceover in the epilogue. There was a feeling that at a certain stage of filming, the director realized that he did not fit into the schedule / budget and tried to fit all subsequent events in the allotted time. Although it is possible that this was the intention. The authors seem to want to emphasize the importance of the exquisite life of the highest elite, who turned the heads of the heroes of the tape, and the importance of chic and brilliance for the United States – the American dream! The idea that before the power of money, human life and the friendships of the main characters are dust that should not be talked about even in the film. A fragment and epilogue are enough.
Therefore, let everyone decide for themselves whether this is an author’s technique or not a very successful work.
Also, it did not impress music, but could. Sad.
But the acting game looks quite decent: the characters are all alive, emotional, bright. It would have been even better if it hadn’t been for Kevin Spacey’s professionalism. I am not a fan of his work, but I recognize his talent and skill. And it should be noted that under his charisma, the other characters are a little lost and do not seem so interesting. I emphasize that his experience and talent “save” many scenes and cause a desire to learn his story, the success story of the hard-core stock tycoon.
Costumes and decorations are not impressive, but do not cause negative emotions - everything is appropriate, exactly, in tone. There is nothing to complain about.
In the end, James Cox turned out quite a decent film, not boring. It is unlikely that the movie will become a favorite and you will watch it later. However, you can spend an evening in the company of dreamers about easy earnings, plunge into the euphoria of exquisite life, into the funnel of dizzying success, dragging to the bottom of the ocean.
Decide whether or not to join the Billionaires Club. Who knows, maybe better: one day as an eagle than a crow for a lifetime? At least 108 minutes.
“The perception of reality is more real than reality itself,” says Kevin Spacey’s character in The Billionaires Club, and he’s right. The story on which the script is based is certainly capable of attracting attention and intrigue: young people from Beverly Hills built a financial pyramid, only its investors were representatives of the American elite. While some loans were repaid at the expense of others, the depositors of the fraudulent scheme largely did not care where the money came from. Well, the story may be instructive, but not particularly original. “Wealth is respect,” says Ansel Egerton’s character, forgetting that paintings such as Wall Street and The Wolf of Wall Street relied so heavily on fetishizing that very wealth that the Billionaires Club looks pale.
Inspired by the spirit of the USA of the 80s, the script is inspired by a real incident with the company "BBC", they are the same "Billionaire Boys Club". Joe Hunt, a young man who has experienced ups and downs, is presented as a victim of the class system, seduced by a better life. The young man is fascinated with majors from Beverly Hills. And here on the horizon loomed a former classmate Dean, who has contacts among young hoodlums. With Dean’s confidence and Joe’s brain, the Young Billionaires Club began its operation, which carried out financial manipulation under the patronage of an experienced Wall Street wolf. Rona.
The Billionaires Club script tries to be brash, especially as the fraud story progresses to a real, grim murder case, but the way the creators try to investigate the “American crime story” is still confusing. The films themselves try to set their tone, proclaiming the courage of vicious members of the club, but the special consequences of their crimes are not felt. And since the stakes in history are low, it is not particularly possible to delve into the misadventures of the American majors. Of course, it is worth paying tribute to the script crew, who decided to juggle the fates of people who are ready to do anything to build their own image, but there is very little honesty in this. It seems that the writers were more absorbed in the scenes of young people’s hangouts or a slurred romantic line than anything affecting personalities inside and outside the microcosm of the Billionaires’ Club.
The project, for the most part, is purely biographical and is based on the history of Hunt’s company, from its founding to its sad point. At the same time, the script focuses on the personal life of this person, especially focusing on his affair with the artist Sidney. Even their first bed scene takes place against the backdrop of an ever-changing stock market. An interesting find, and, of course, through a romantic relationship, one can conclude that this very Joe Hunt was behind the personality at that time, but the melodrama in The Club has no power. Generally a love line is added here, well, because it kind of has to be. Why? Because, if you recall the words of Spacey’s character, “the perception of reality is more than reality itself” – you should, they say, write a script “like a textbook” so as not to scare off a potential viewer, not realizing that this is not always appropriate.
At least all the actors look quite charming. The same Kevin Spacey gives the Club a good boost: his performance here is on top. If you look closely, he communicates to some extent even in body language: for example, he spontaneously touches his young partners, as if indicating his position as a teacher. This has a positive impact on his role in the film. All the other actors also fit well into the role, but unlike Spacey's character, they don't convey the main thing - identifying with, for example, Joe Hunt, who was born in some rotting middle class and yearned to taste life in the chic circles of Beverly Hills, doesn't work out. Instead, I want to want a full film about the shark Ron Levin.
Trips to nightclubs, parties, drugs, as well as clarifying relationships are present in the “Billionaires Club”, but it is somehow impossible to imbue the carefree life of members of this very club. The film misses the opportunity to be shocking, dangerous and even sincere, as the creators were too concerned with recreating the atmosphere of the 80s or for Ansel Elgort, Taron Edgerton, Kevin Spacey and Emma Roberts to look spectacular in the shot. Actually, the story about the real "Billionaire Boys Club" remained unsaid, because even with a plaque before the final credits about the fate of participants in real events, there are many questions that prompt to turn to Wikipedia. Well, a cursory review of one of America's most notorious flimsy ego condiment schemes is also eligible for cinematic life. And regardless of the situation with the great actor Kevin Spacey, who serves as the decoration of the “Billionaires Club”, one cannot ignore the obvious irony: on-screen scammers believed that they could avoid the inevitable, but ultimately they failed. That's too bad.
6 out of 10
This film tells about the creation of the American financial pyramid. The action takes place in 1984. This is the time of Ronald Reigen’s economic reforms in the American economy. Thanks to reforms, the American economy began to revive, and a new class of young savvy businessmen appeared. This explains why people look at young people and accept them as rich.
I loved Kevin Spacey’s performance of a powerful saying: “You can do whatever you want in Beverly Hills if you’re wearing a Rolex watch and a Rolls Royce car.” Kevin Spacey's character teaches a young crook: "Lie, lie, and then you'll become a billionaire." Rich people react very strongly to profits. Everyone is amazed by the lies of the hero Joe Hunt, who lost money, but told everyone about fifty percent profit. Financial scams are very difficult to film: too many numbers and bureaucracy with no action. That is why murder is added to the financial pyramid.
I found the film boring, because in the 21st century, pyramid schemes became more refined: they switched to investment funds. It’s just that ordinary people no longer trust cash to anyone (or cash has disappeared from our lives). It's boring to watch finances tarnished by an open act of murder. “Lie, lie and lie again” – it’s not interesting to film from an artistic point of view. Kevin Spacey played a serious fraudster who teaches Joe Hunt the art of deceiving the naive rich.
I think the film says, "Since the 1980s, financiers and other successful businessmen have started taking drugs openly." Cocaine is a sign of success or a sign of a successful transaction. Drugs, money, Los Angeles all speak to the rise of financial America’s West Coast boys. Their conquest of Wall Street.
It took me a long time to figure out where to start this review. Let me tell you right away that the film was pretty mediocre and gray. He did not live up to expectations for several reasons.
It was very difficult to understand their financial manipulation. It all happened very quickly and confusingly. In the same "Wolf of Wall Street" everything was much simpler and clearer for the average viewer, who is not that versed in a given topic. It was not possible to get into the atmosphere. The plot itself is simple and predictable, because this is not the first film on a similar topic. Undoubtedly, it has the right message, but it does not brighten up the boring dialogue, the illogicality of some actions of the characters and the ill-thought-outness of secondary characters. The film saved a small timekeeping, which did not allow it to become even more boring and gray. I didn’t feel the atmosphere of the 80s either.
The main plus, no doubt, is the unsurpassed Kevin Spacey, whose talent is visible from afar. His character looks bright and stands out from everyone else. It is interesting to watch him, and to be honest, I sympathized with him much more than the main characters. But I still can't say anything bad about Ansel Elgort and Taron Edgerton. The guys just faded against the background of such a star as Spacey, and their characters often made strange decisions and even annoyed, which does not reduce the talent of young actors. It just wasn't their finest hour.
The visuals of the film are good, but not particularly hooked. The Billionaires Club was still gray and pretty mediocre. Everything is monotonous and monotonous, just like the story. In general, the film left no special impressions. I saw what I didn’t see.
After all, as was the Game of the Fall and the Wolf of Walt Street the best films on this subject, and remained. And the movie Billionaires Club was not something special even with Kevin Spacey, although he was the best thing in this film, but about everything in order.
The plot of the film is the same as in other films on a similar topic: a young and talented young man decides to become a rich and respected man. As you can see, there is no special novelty in the Billionaires Club, but as usual, it is based on a “real” story, where the main character is Joe Hunt, known in the United States as the first person to successfully defend himself in court without a lawyer, but the story is not about this, but about why he had to defend himself in court. Joe Hunt, as befits a normal family, but very talented. His friend Dean Cairney is a twisting pawn who spurred Hunt to open his "business." And, of course, this “business” is not very clean. As you can see, a typical story with the same typical and very fair ending, and this film would have been missed and not even seen on digital media, but there is one big BUT.
In the film James Cox plays the inimitable Kevin Spacey. There are not many scenes with him, but they show that he is undoubtedly one of the most talented actors in the United States. He plays a typical character who has been featured in more than one film, but there was a feeling that this role was different from the previous ones. That's what happens when there's a talent on the screen, not a copycat. All the other actors on Spacey's background weren't as bright as they could have been. Maybe it's the director (aka screenwriter) James Cox or the producers, or maybe the actors themselves. Taron Edgerton and Ansel Elgort were completely unimpressed. They didn’t fail, but after their roles in Kingsman and Kid on Drive, where their roles were very vivid, more was expected of them. Elgord’s character was more like a simplified version of the symbiosis between DiCaprio and McConaughey of The Wolf of Walt Street. Very attractive on their background looked Emma Roberts, who played a girl Joe named Cindy.
In addition to a fairly simple plot, mediocre directing and faded roles (except Spacey), we have not bright camera work, which can not be remembered, since there is nothing bright and mediocre musical accompaniment (a couple of hours after the session, nothing cool pops up in memory from the film).
In general, the James Cox Billionaires Club movie can be safely attributed to average films, where almost everything is average. You can safely go to this film for Kevin Spacey fans, because in the next 10 years you will hardly see it on the big screens, and then you can return, like Mel Gibson, as a director. And so, if you want to hold the ruble director who has "iron ... & #34; unlike Ridley Scott, who a couple of months before the release of his last film changed Spacey for another actor, then go ahead.
Billionaires Club is a movie that will confuse you, not engage you, and just leave you with nothing. That’s what I felt when I watched the movie and after. Even the presence of promising actors (Taron Edgerton and Ansel Elgort) and even one eminent (Kevin Spacey) does not save the overall impression of the picture.
I have highlighted the highlights that make this film unworthy of your money and time.
In some cases, when the film is based on real events (and "The Billionaires Club is one of them), the narrative of the film is going at an accelerated pace. And this picture just falls under such a description. In order to have time to tell the whole story of fraud, the creators made the plot too fleeting. The viewer simply does not have time to “digest” the chatter (about it later) from the previous scene, as he is already shoved another.
Incomprehensible chatter in large quantities. It would seem that this is an integral attribute of films of this genre, but here it is not in the best and “balanced” quality. The characters speak a language that is incomprehensible to the viewer, which affects the whole sphere of financial fraud and is not given to everyone. Unless you know that kind of language... The rest of the dialogue and reflection can be simply incomprehensible.
A lack of dynamism. I can immediately say that the beginning of the film is rather boring and long “swinging”. And the action throughout the picture remains the same. The same “Wolf of Wall Street” although it was a film from the same category as the “Billionaires Club”, but there was a dynamism, an active action that did not even allow the viewer to yawn. In this film, it is exactly the opposite. Only occasionally there are moments that claim to be “boring”.
There is no simple message in the film, or even a hint of it. Sorry, but when it comes to the fact that a group of young people trying to make money is not the most honest way, which, in turn, can lead to not the best consequences, then after such a message CAN BE, maybe even beautifully designed. But, alas, this picture is not expected.
Overall, the film was unsuccessful. Behind the beautiful title and no less attractive trailer hides a boring spectacle, which is definitely not worth your attention.
USA, Los Angeles, early 80s. Two former classmates after graduating from college are looking for an opportunity to realize themselves in this harsh world. Joe Hunt, an excellent nerd and economic genius, is not satisfied with his temporary job, where he is forced to wear a cheap jacket and work for people he puts in nothing. Dean Carney is also not all right - he rose a little not to resell luxury cars, but it is still not the limit of his dreams. The two of them, thanks to Joe’s intelligence and Dean’s assertiveness, form an investment company that is on the rise. So sharply that at some point to invest in their company decides financial tycoon Ron Levin.
History is as banal as the world, and cinema, in general, is exactly the same. All this we have seen more than once, the plot is predictable, and even its biographical background does not make the fact of its adaptation at all remarkable. Young and naive fools, not deprived of certain talents, get involved in a game where, in addition to theoretical knowledge, you need to have powerful empirical experience. Or they'll eat and not choke. This is a great discovery.
Overall, the Billionaires Club movie leaves a sense of endless facepalm associated with the behavior of the main characters. Starting from pretentious speeches and manifestos at the beginning of the film, going through crazy spending on a house and a party, ending with the entire final chain of events, where you wanted to cover your face with your hand almost every second. In the heat of idiocy, the whole situation, by the way, reminded the beautiful film “Alpha Dog”, which also wanted to yell and bring the main characters to their senses. However, where Alpha Dog did all this to raise pressing and burning questions, the Billionaires Club lacked this firm position and vision. Because unjustified pathos in some places just poured over the edge: this is especially noticeable in the scene of the meeting of participants of the “Billionaires Club” and shareholders of a large, bankrupt company. You can't take that off.
Remarkably, to some extent, the one who actually drowned it in a wide box office saves this film. This is, of course, about Kevin Spacey. Although he did not come out of his usual image of a clever and delightfully charming scoundrel, he did everything to become the central, most memorable figure of this picture. As always, amazing acting. It’s a pity that this is likely his last major film of his career. Ansel Elgort, Taron Edgerton and Emma Roberts also do not want to scold - young, bright and very promising guys.
At the end of the day, I didn’t like it very much. In addition to acting, there is nothing to distinguish. The plot is simple and predictable. Emotional points are placed by the director wrong. Morality, if indicated, is extremely unclear. Kevin Spacey in the yellow jacket is very good. And he's definitely worth watching this tape. Everything else is for one time, and it is not mandatory.
People always wanted to live richly and beautifully, so that the press wrote about them, and evening promenades were discussed in gloss. Many people want such a life, but not many people want to work, create and strive for it. It is desirable that a large amount of money materialized on the account, which would be enough not only for children but also for grandchildren, and which no one would be looking for.
Unfortunately, this does not happen, and every day the crooks of varying degrees of lousy have ideas how to take money from the poor and keep them for themselves. Someone works on trifles, building pyramids for public sector employees, and someone attempts billions.
The Millionaires Club (and where did the word “young” disappear from the title?) tells exactly such a story, which ended not as rosy as many would like. Let’s talk about the movie in more detail!
Stories of various kinds of fraud are fertile ground for screenwriters, especially if the main villain is a bright outstanding personality with character and charisma. But while some films turn out bright and memorable, such as The Wolf of Wall Street, others perish in financial husks, terms and attempts to explain the mechanisms of enrichment. The Billionaires Club, unfortunately, falls into the second category.
Personally, I believe that a lot of story arches could be safely thrown out of the film, without any damage to the plot. Meet Andy Warhol, plush sex scenes with Sookie Waterhouse, endless suffering regarding the correctness of the chosen path, monologues dedicated to the riches of the indigenous people of Beverly Hills, and with a dozen scenes and plot twists that can be easily removed. It’s a great way to stretch the clock.
Yes, timekeeping, which is already not surprising in duration, shrink. I understand the writers who I think wanted to make a documentary, but unfortunately, the story of the Billionaires’ Club is not as driven as the life of Jordan Belfort. But it would be possible to embellish a little to give some charm to the whole idea of the main characters.
In the end, we got a mediocre story that really does not show anything. The scheme, according to which the characters are wearing depositors, is not particularly disclosed, luxurious life and wealth are also not shown, and the ending turned out to be quite crumpled. So much so that it causes neither joy nor special sadness. Heroes among themselves discuss financial moments that most viewers will not be particularly interested.
But it is worth noting that there were moments that surprised and make you nervous, so to say that the film did not work out completely, is not necessary.
The acting of Taron Edgerton and Ansel Elgort, to put it mildly, does not shine. If the first and remained in the image of the hero from “Kingsman”, the second is as gray and inconspicuous as in all his previous paintings. Looking at him, a certain apathy wakes up in the soul to everything.
Not bad played Emma Roberts, in which I hardly recognized the girl from “We are the Millers”.
Perhaps the brightest moment that should make you go to the theaters – participation in the project Kevin Spacey. I think that many people remember the artificially inflated scandal associated with harassment, under which Kevin fell, and his career was destroyed. What can I say, if even the final season of “House of Cards” – the series, holding on to the heroes of Spacey, was remade so as to completely throw out his character. So it is quite possible that Ron Levine is his last role in a big movie.
Spacey really pulls out the Billionaires Club, so if you want to see a really impressive acting, you should definitely watch the Billionaires Club.
I don’t like movies like Billionaires Club. Not because they are terrible on all sides, but rather because there is nothing to cling to, and it is quite difficult to talk about them. Bad movies can leave negative emotions, good movies can leave positive emotions, and the Billionaires Club leaves nothing behind. You seem to have seen a movie that has a wide range of feelings, but you have a void inside. Remembering the film, I can’t even find a place where you have to worry about the heroes.
The biggest problem with this painting is that it is very dry. It’s kind of a story about audacious young guys who decided to make millions and conquer the world, but the film itself does not have a modicum of such ambitions. The whole plot invariably follows the already tested and clichéd concept of biographical films about all sorts of adventurers and scammers. So if you've seen, for example, The Wolf of Wall Street, you've seen the Billionaires' Club. And, of course, he loses everything to such films in recent years.
A good half of the timing of the film generally goes on the same wavelength, and only in the last third turns into a rather serious story with drugs, murders, sets, etc. But let’s be honest, this is too little to disperse the boredom that has already accumulated over an hour. Especially since the ending looks very ragged, as if they just did not know how to finish the film.
I don’t know if there’s something wrong with me, but personally, I found their entire philosophy and earnings pattern very murky. The film does not even explain exactly what they were doing. No one expected detailed charts of the financial pyramid, but at least a little humane explanation could be. So that viewers understand what we are talking about, because talking about making money takes, probably, more than half of screen time. And in the end, it turns out that they earned millions of dollars in unclear ways.
Another disadvantage is the almost absolute lack of character development. No, I don’t think characters always have to evolve in movies. But in the Billionaires Club, the story itself implies a certain path that heroes must take, a path from ordinary middle-class kids to millionaires, etc. But here it does not feel at all, the main characters behave the same all the time. And to be completely honest, the whole situation does not change during the film. All the changes that occur are completely artificial and minor. To trace a significant difference between the position of the characters in the beginning and, for example, in the middle of the film, in my opinion, it is simply impossible.
Well, at least the actors are fine, almost. Ansel Elgort and Taron Edgerton made a good duo. Of course, they play not the most interesting and multifaceted personalities, but purely as representatives of the younger generation for not the most demanding spectators, they cope normally. On the other hand, Elgort already played a very similar role in Kid on Drive, and Edgerton in Kingsman, so they did not perform much for themselves. It’s great to see Kevin Spacey, who still plays all of his co-stars. I don’t know when he’ll be there next time. But such actresses as Sookie Waterhouse and Emma Roberts play, imho, not very convincing, at least not always.
Such a film would not hurt another cool and winding soundtrack. But the creators clearly did not work with this either. The music here is not memorable at all. It does not move the action and does not decorate the boring plot, unfortunately.
The Billionaires Club may not be the worst movie in the world, but it doesn’t make it any better. This is an absolutely average and not outstanding picture, under which, in a bad scenario, you can fall asleep, everything is very boring there.
5 out of 10
USA, Los Angeles in the '80s. Guys under thirty decide that there is a way to get rich with minimal effort, but everything is not so fabulous.
Nedo-thriller, sub-criminal, sub-drama, but a small spoonful of honey can still be found in this barrel of tar.
The main advantage of the film is that it runs less than two hours. Yeah, that's right. Thanks to a small timekeeping, a large number of essentially meaningless dialogues were avoided. It's painfully complicated. It is very difficult to understand the concept of their business. To make a bad thing good or something like that, but in fact the same pyramid comes out.
Despite the unimpressive script and its embodiment, three useful lessons can still be learned from the film:
1. You can’t earn a lot of money in business honestly, so think again what you’re willing to do for a lot of money.
2. You're full of rats. Anyone can be a traitor.
3. In America, you can earn respect only if you have a billion in your pocket.
The strange thing is that remakes often look worse than the original, although there is no need to invent something radically new, to make any new turns in history.
Fans Kevin Spacey can enjoy the game still talented actor. It is not known if he will ever be filmed again. Both Ansel Elgort and Taron Edgerton will be pleased. They reinforce the belief that there are still young actors who can play well, not just run, shoot and make jokes one by one.
There’s one big plus to the movie – it’s the visual side. The picture looks bright and dynamic, there is also a beautiful stylization for the eighties.
If you like one of the actors and do not mind spending a little more than an hour and a half, then please. The film is a little bit, but it will still be entertaining. If you are a fan of movies about scams, then in any case do not watch - disappointment is inevitable.
However, if you rely solely on the first impression to some viewers ' Billionaires Club' it seems funny. The main thing is not to think about it after watching.
The dignity and curse of this movie is its dialogue intellectuality, which, alas, is likely to scare away the “Billionaires Club” of the mass audience. Sorry. The movie is bright on characters and intrigue fun. There is also a lot of instructive in the film (as in Paranoia with Liam Hemsworth or The Wolf of Wall Street with Leonardo DiCaprio). And this effect is all the more powerful because James Cox’s film about the five glossy young muffins is based on a real story, the main characters of which are still alive.
Among the characters of the "Club" there is no real fool. Although the guys make mistakes are quite worthy of fools, and all because the overpowering energy is spent on the realization of the dream of all loafers: “Who would work, if not work?” This dream, like an epidemic, infects everyone in a row: poor people from huts, and daddy’s sons, sitting on gold pots with a family coat of arms from infancy. But the main thing is that Cox’s boys quickly admit to themselves that moral boundaries can be shifted if it means taking off (in their understanding) to the top of the world. And such self-indulgence is dangerous precisely because there are no brakes in it a priori.
I liked the movie. So thank you to Vladimir "Kinomaks" that he rolls it for us, connoisseurs. Such conversational-phrassic pictures with a successful staging and excellent (as here) performances are able to keep in tone: you seem to watch a brilliant game of chess played by real grandmasters, up to a certain point not even allowing the thought that both are bluffing. And at the same time, they do not suspect that they are about to receive a board on the head from the third combinator.
For every dodgy business there is a cunning bolt from Wall Street.
Director James Cox rarely indulges in the novelties of his fans. Of course, if he has them. The American made the first creative steps at the turn of the century, in the late 90s - early 00s, stuffing his hand on short films and mini-series. Having not gained much popularity, he undertook to adapt classical literary plots and real events. His creative efforts showed the world Highway (2001), where he swung at Romeo and Juliet. And two years later, in 2003, the world saw the picture “Wanderland”, a harsh drama about the massacre in the estate of the same name, which was involved in the retired legendary porn actor John Holmes. Nine years later, Cox gave birth to the sweet melodrama “Simple Truths” and again went underground, where he stayed until this year.
Listening to the trending Hollywood winds that his gusts bring to the big screen numerous reboots and remakes, John Cox figured out the opportunity to re-state himself, and came to the viewer with the picture “The Young Billionaires Club”, a remake of the picture of the same name in 1987, which, in turn, was based on real events.
To give the tape recognition, the main roles are given to kingsman Taron Edgerton and “baby driver” Ansel Elgort, and also added a light pepper scandal invitation as a guest star Hollywood stepson Kevin Spacey.
Two young sneaky business (Elgort and Edgerton) scrolled through a one-time deal, in the course of which they “threw” their friend. Easy money so inspired them that the guys decided to put the business on stream and created an office that shared the title with the film - "BBC (Billionaire Boys Club)" or localized "The Young Billionaires Club" (KMM)". The company with an abbreviation that causes a slight itch in every “not a freebie, but a partner” Mavrodi began to do what the real Sergey Panteleevich did. That is, it turned into a classic financial pyramid, in which interest was paid to old investors by attracting new poor people. Considering themselves the smartest, a couple of friends didn’t even feel “divorced” from a more experienced wolf. And when they saw it, it was too late to drink Borjomi.
John Cox decided not to reinvent the wheel, and with the peace of the Olympics continued to do what he loved. Apply “cosmetics” to someone else’s work and pass it off as your own. His KMM biopic is a pale replica of the iconic Wall Street (1987) and the recent Gold (2016) with Matthew McConaughey. Video and musical accompaniment do not mean anything outstanding. For an hour and a half of the film adaptation of the torn script by the same James Cox, no anchors that can cling to sympathy for the main characters fly into the minds of the audience. Cash, clubs, chicks, cars. Plus slow-mo love line, which slows down the already smooth plot.
At the final ball, KMM worked exclusively through the efforts of the character Kevin Spacey. If you close your eyes and do not particularly look, it seems that Gordon Gekko honored the audience with a visit to the big screen for the third time. The unshakeable actor behaves like a graduate at the morning of first graders. His charisma presses the duo Elgort-Egerton as children, as if revenge young talents for the burden of public dislike of recent years.
By all indicators, the Young Billionaires Club is a purely average picture with a faded script and inexpressive directing. A typical representative of the conversational genre, which without a blaze of conscience can be missed for the sake of more spectacular films in the current film distribution.