An economic crash caused by a financial crisis, a 24-hour crisis in an investment bank, a tough and energetic securities broker, a tycoon at the top of the food chain in the business world, and several employees in different roles in the bank make up the latest financial suspense film. Although the story structure is simple, the picture is biased towards cool tones, the "Business Sea Ultimatum" filmed in 17 days is not as exquisite as "Wall Street 2", and the human nature and the essence of the financial industry are not classic enough, but it has a star-studded lineup and a wonderful beyond expectations.
The film begins with an old employee being laid off, and he leaves a USB flash drive for the younger employees to hide the secret that the company's assets are about to go bankrupt. Frightened, the top brass met overnight and finally decided to sell bond stocks and empty non-performing assets. All imminent crises have to be resolved in a day, and the different identities of the bank's employees have their own ghosts and ambitions. Everyone wants to protect themselves, no one wants the company to go out of business, everyone wants to keep the moral bottom line, and money and interests make them involuntarily. Maybe it has something to do with the director's real estate career in Manhattan and his father's 40-year experience in Merrill Lynch, where he wants to expose the shadiness and greed of the Wall Street financial industry.
"Shang Hai Ultimatum" is a commercial film that relies on group dramas to win, J · Although C. Chaz is a new director, he makes full use of the star lineup. Many big stars actually don't have to act too hard, as long as the true color drama is in place, there is a look. Sam, the boss played by Kevin Spacey, knows that emptying assets and losing many people to work is not moral enough and not authentic. However, he eventually abandoned the defenders and still chose monetary benefits. Jeremy Irons is a domineering and fierce old man, he does not care how many people are unemployed, does not care about shame on customers, he as long as the company does not go out of business, resolutely cruel, unscrupulous. And Paul Bettany's means are vicious, Mr. Stanley Tuzi is good, Zachary Quintu's natural stupidity, and Demi Moore's calm and composure, basically relying on image and temperament, plus some unpopular financial words, instantly natural.
The tone of the whole film is extremely cold, and the scene basically shifts from the courtroom to the office, forming a group drama similar to the "12 Angry Men". This kind of no soundtrack, relying on the fate of the characters, relying on the inner plot tension, relying on the confrontation of big stars, creating a suffocating apocalyptic atmosphere, it is indeed not easy. In "Shanghai Ultimatum", the old employee who was once dismissed was called back by the company, and he did not come back to have no interests, and when he came back, he could cover up the facts and could not tell the company's crisis! On the contrary, the many hard-working employees who sold bonds and stocks for the company, many of whom were immediately laid off, were really a result of a thousand bones, which was chilling! And the young man who found the crisis in the U disk, he was left behind, why? The company wants to sit back and relax, it must keep a brain, in the end, it is still for money!
It's an easy-to-understand, point-to-point "Iultique of Business and Seas," reminiscent of the horrific financial turmoil of 2008 and exposing the ugliness and greed of the financial industry. Unfortunately, the film was released on the DVD market in advance, which shows that in the era of IMAX_3D, the box office of financial suspense films is not optimistic. And the relatively stingy production, the publicity is not strong enough, not the classic quality is enough, proving that a good film is not equal to enduring. The essence of the film is in the final conversation between Kevin Spacey and Jeremy Irons, the former wants to resign and not to do it, but the latter puts out facts and temptations, easily persuading the former, what morality, what conscience, what conscience, everything in front of money, all into a floating cloud.
At the end of the film, the male protagonist wept bitterly for the death of his dog, and he did not know that when he buried the body, the beautiful cause he had longed for had already been a success!