The Big Short

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A movie about the housing market crash between 2005 and 2008 could have easily been a bore, but co-writer and director Adam McKay (yes, the man who did the Anchorman movies) managed to look at the situation in a different way, injecting a little humor in the situation, and dumbing it down just enough for those people who can easily lost in the shuffle, and, along with co-writer Charles Randolph make the dialogue interesting enough, and get actors like Brad Pitt, Christian Bale, Steve Carrell, and Ryan Gosling who can make the dialogue work, that the movie as a whole is also able to work. There are hints of dramatic moments that I think work really well, especially for Steve Carrell and Christian Bale. There are also a couple cameos in the movie that I think work better than they really should. Another thing I want to compliment is the soundtrack. It may seem like such a small thing, but the way songs like Sweet Child O Mine by Guns N’ Roses, Feel Good, Inc. by Gorillaz, and Master of Puppets by Metallica are interjected into the movie feel natural. On the more negative side of things, The Big Short is 130 minutes long, and there are several places where the movie looked like it was going to end, but didn’t and just kind of kept going. Even though I think a good ten or fifteen minutes could’ve been cut out of the movie, I still think it was pretty good, and I would recommend watching it at least once. 

9 / 10