Watch options. Storyline Edit. Only those you trust can truly betray you. Did you know Edit. She plays herself in various scenes throughout this movie interviewing Madoff Robert De Niro. She has said that the resemblance was so uncanny, she got goosebumps just sitting opposite him. Goofs In a montage in which Bernie is calling Ruth from prison, he leaves her multiple voicemail messages. This is technically impossible to do, as all phone calls placed from federal penitentiaries must be accepted by the person the prisoner is calling.
This is to prevent people from receiving unwanted phone calls and voicemail messages from prisoners. The entire premise of the montage is unrealistic. If prisoners could call whomever they want whenever they want, all kinds of people would receive unwanted and threatening messages, including victims of the prisoners' crimes.
Quotes [last lines] Bernie Madoff : Let me ask you a question. DAWN User reviews 77 Review. Top review. An interesting attempt to weave a story line on the Madoff ponzi scheme but one that in the end is disjoint, incomplete, and largely unsatisfying. It certainly falls far short of other great financial movies — the Big Short, Margin Call, and Smartest Guys in the Room, to name a few. Worth watching but not likely a movie to savor, add closure, provide moral assurance, or make you feel anything.
Too many moving pieces that lack grounding — the timeline has no center and the flashbacks and jumps forward are too disjoint, too many supporting characters are painted as morally ambiguous, and the many defrauded clients are nameless and faceless. As for the some of the details, it's hard to get around Michelle Pfeiffer accent. It may be spot-on but the voice is just annoying. Add in Robert De Niro's unbalanced intonations and a discordant soundtrack and sound-editing and it is not a movie that will sit well with your ears.
It should have been done as a part mini-series. They would have had a lot more time to not only relay the full time line and details of the case but also go into the many interesting sub-stories and tragedies.
For example, the efforts of Harry Markopolos to unmask the fraud is addressed only by showing Bernie and Ruth watching 30 seconds of testimony on the TV in their condo.
The questions of the hundreds of millions potentially transferred to London accounts for the benefit of Madoff relatives is not explored. They met in when he was performing an examination as to whether Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. Interesting and entertaining, yes. A good film, meh. Disappointing for what it could have been, most definitely. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Only those you trust can truly betray you. Did you know Edit. She plays herself in various scenes throughout this movie interviewing Madoff Robert De Niro.
She has said that the resemblance was so uncanny, she got goosebumps just sitting opposite him. Goofs In a montage in which Bernie is calling Ruth from prison, he leaves her multiple voicemail messages. This is technically impossible to do, as all phone calls placed from federal penitentiaries must be accepted by the person the prisoner is calling. This is to prevent people from receiving unwanted phone calls and voicemail messages from prisoners. The entire premise of the montage is unrealistic.
If prisoners could call whomever they want whenever they want, all kinds of people would receive unwanted and threatening messages, including victims of the prisoners' crimes.
Quotes [last lines] Bernie Madoff : Let me ask you a question. DAWN User reviews 77 Review. Top review. An interesting attempt to weave a story line on the Madoff ponzi scheme but one that in the end is disjoint, incomplete, and largely unsatisfying.
It certainly falls far short of other great financial movies — the Big Short, Margin Call, and Smartest Guys in the Room, to name a few. Worth watching but not likely a movie to savor, add closure, provide moral assurance, or make you feel anything. Too many moving pieces that lack grounding — the timeline has no center and the flashbacks and jumps forward are too disjoint, too many supporting characters are painted as morally ambiguous, and the many defrauded clients are nameless and faceless.
As for the some of the details, it's hard to get around Michelle Pfeiffer accent. It may be spot-on but the voice is just annoying. Add in Robert De Niro's unbalanced intonations and a discordant soundtrack and sound-editing and it is not a movie that will sit well with your ears.
It should have been done as a part mini-series. They would have had a lot more time to not only relay the full time line and details of the case but also go into the many interesting sub-stories and tragedies. For example, the efforts of Harry Markopolos to unmask the fraud is addressed only by showing Bernie and Ruth watching 30 seconds of testimony on the TV in their condo.
The questions of the hundreds of millions potentially transferred to London accounts for the benefit of Madoff relatives is not explored. They met in when he was performing an examination as to whether Madoff was running a Ponzi scheme. Interesting and entertaining, yes. A good film, meh. Disappointing for what it could have been, most definitely.
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