Film Review – Dumb Money

“Dumb Money” dips back into recent history, examining the story of the GameStop Meme Stock scandal of 2021, where Reddit users and their indefatigable love of insanity worked to make a mess of an already corrupt Wall Street system. Director Craig Gillespie, joined by screenwriters Lauren Schuker Blum and Rebecca Angelo, strive to replicate the atmosphere found in Adam McKay’s “The Big Short” and David Fincher’s “The Social Network” (the film adapts Ben Mezrich’s book, “The Antisocial Network,” and Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are listed as executive producers), looking to gift viewers some understanding of financial world scheming while replicating waves of hysteria found in the original event. There’s entertainment value in “Dumb Money,” but Gillespie is occasionally stuck between trying to be funny with the subject matter and hoping to reinforce a sobering level of fraud involving a community of characters. Such indecision doesn’t always make for an inspired take on the central crisis. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com