
'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, re... (Full plot summary below)
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'Inside Job' provides a comprehensive analysis of the global financial crisis of 2008, which at a cost over $20 trillion, caused millions of people to lose their jobs and homes in the worst recession since the Great Depression, and nearly resulted in a global financial collapse. Through exhaustive research and extensive interviews with key financial insiders, politicians, journalists, and academics, the film traces the rise of a rogue industry which has corrupted politics, regulation, and academia. It was made on location in the United States, Iceland, England, France, Singapore, and China.
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| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisThe result is a masterpiece of investigative nonfiction moviemaking - a scathing, outrageous, depressing, comical, horrifying report on what and who brought on the crisis. |
| Brand XAndy Klein[N]early everyone Ferguson talks to displays an infuriating sense of entitlement... . The rest of us are set dressing -- barely visible extras -- in the important stories of their lives. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectQuite simply, the definitive movie on the financial crisis and an implicit call for radical action against the two capitalist parties that are responsible for it. |
| HollywoodChicago.comBrian TallericoIncredibly complicated but never dry, never confusing, and always riveting. |
| Salon.comAndrew O'HehirIt might well be the most important film you see this year, and the most important documentary of this young century. |
| Minneapolis Star TribuneColin CovertThis is no dry economics lesson; it is a vital wake-up call. |
| Shared DarknessBrent SimonA clear-eyed, calmly reasoned wake-up call that reveals the 2008 financial collapse to be both a crime of greed and a systemic failure, a de-pantsing of American capitalism to the rest of the world. |
| Film Journal InternationalErica AbeelA blistering, eye-opening documentary with the potential to change America. |
| VarietyRob NelsonCharles Ferguson's sophomore film Inside Job is the definitive screen investigation of the global economic crisis, providing hard evidence of flagrant amorality -- and of a new nonfiction master at work. |
| San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleThere's such a thing as smart angry, and such a thing as stupid angry, and after seeing Inside Job, audiences will be smart angry. |