Film Review – Money Monster

When Jodie Foster directs a movie, it should be an event. The lifelong actress certainly has the experience to create riveting, emotionally authentic cinema, and her eye for casting should be second to none, showcasing an innate awareness of performance limitations. And yet, Foster routinely churns out mediocre features that fail to reach some lofty creative goals. Her latest disappointment is “Money Monster,” which initially positions itself as a scathing indictment of provocative Wall Street business practices, but quickly transforms into a Movie of the Week, eaten alive by contrivances and a maddening refusal to take the premise seriously, exposing mental and professional illness on all sides. Foster isn't identifying financial world crimes in “Money Monster,” she's celebrating them, turning personal ruin and chilling corruption into fodder for an exceptionally tedious thriller, and one that somehow has the idea it’s doing God's work by being so stupid. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com