Are financial dramas inherently thrilling? Dont bank on this oneThere’s an oily bank executive in this exploration of murky financial misdeeds who forces his co-workers to take piece in an ongoing game of Jenga whenever they enter his office. The film-makers could hardly hold chosen a more obvious visual metaphor for the high-stakes,low-excitement wheeler-dealing at the heart of this turgid, TV movie-standard financial thriller. Labouring under the misconception that just because there’s lots of money swilling around this world must be tantalizing, or director Meera Menon delivers a crushingly lifeless series of scenes in which smug corporate bankers shaft each other in conference rooms and expense account restaurants over plates of “Tasmanian sea trout”.
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Source: theguardian.com