Money monster - 2016

 It’s a bitter movie, of course, what else could it be when there’s money, greed and poverty involved?

Lee Gates, host of tv show Money Monster, talks about money and investments and stuff. Apparently an investment app had a glitch and many people lost money. 

It’s a live show, and who they thought was a delivery guy enters th stage with a gun pointed at Lee and has him wear a bomb jacket. He yells that it’s all rigged to steal people’s money, he blames Lee because he said the Ibis investment was the safest, really a safe bet, and the guy lost 60.000$, a lot for him, everything.

Globally, he says that the glitch, whatever it means, cost 800 millions.

Diane Lester should have appeared on the show, but when she heard that the guy was complaining about Ibis, she ran. She’s with Ibis too, but the boss Walt is flying somewhere.

The poor guy is Kyle (Lee’s face :lol: he knew the name already because Patti had already told him since the directs the show from  inside the studio, but he said “you don’t have to tell me your real nname, just how I can call you” and the guy: “call me Kyle” …)

Lee sends Ron there and Diana talks to Kyle. Money’s not enough now, he wants answers, an explanation, but she doesn’t know what caused the glitch. They’re all angry and not satisfied by her answers, she’s just a CCO or something  like that, like a pr person, but now she goes to find the answers.

Lee and Patti know they’re watched everywhere now, millions of people, so he tells everyone to buy Ibis so that its value will rise.

But he said “what’s my life worth?” because by doing it, they’d save him, and the price goes down…

The police brings Kyle’s pregnant girlfriend to talk to him, she should calm him down, but instead Moll starts swearing and yelling and insulting him, because he lost all their money, because he can’t use a screwdriver at home and now he built a bomb…

Diane finds the Korean guy who designed the program, which is all Maths, and he says that “it means there is no way that this algorithm could lose 800 millions in one afternoon, it is literally a mathematical impossibility”.

Whatever happened, it was human. Of course.

Walt the Ibis boss, has landed, and he lied to Diane about where he was. Walt tells her he’ll have to make a statement, and Diane calls Patti, even lets her know he was not in Geneva but in South Africa.

Whe they realize the police wants to shoot Lee to deactivate the bomb (wow) she tells Lee to move, and then he takes Kyle and a cameraman and tells him they’re going to get answers. While they’re walking on the street, Kyle reveals that it’s just clay, not a bomb, he wanted attention, not to kill everyone.

Yes he had a real gun, but he shot in the air and that’s it.

Well, he injures poor Ron working for them, but he didn’t want to.

Kyle and Lee get to talk to Walt, reveal the games he was playing, trying to corrupt a good man in South Africa who refused, thus making him lose money. Somehow.

Anyway, Kyle has him admit that it was  wrong thing to do, and then he takes his finger off the detonator, and the police shoot him. He knew it could happen, and he died.

Lenny the cameraman is interviewd like a hero, Patti and Lee are alive and still working together, and there will be “an investigation” on Ibis… and we know how those things usually go, right?

Rich people never really lose.

Lee Gates is George Clooney

Patty Fenn is Julia Roberts

Kyle Budwell is Jack O’Connell

Walt Camby is Dominic West

Diane Lester is Caitriona Balfe

Captain Powell is Giancarlo Esposito

Lenny is Lenny Venito

Molly is Emily Meade

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