I'm a junkie for true stories of financial catastrophe, but since the great crisis, there's been such an overkill of analysis as to why it happened that I've declared bankruptcy on interest in the subject.
Now comes Charles Ferguson's doc on what happened. He's the one-time successful entrepreneur who turned his money into filmmaking with his first doc "No End in Sight" about the Iraq war. It's full of smart people talking about toxic assets and explaining how they knew it was coming which is nothing new. News clips of CEOs testifying before Congress saying it wasn't their fault has been repeated on cable like sports highlights. We finally get some insiders to reveal they knew things were going down.
Those are the money shots for a doc like this. Getting the rats to confess. Unfortunately, the one who wants to reveal all the secrets asks the camera be shut down. That's at the end of this trailer, and I wondered if the footage just continues with an audio track. I think I'm too burned out to want to know.
Opening October 8, 2010,Verdict: Wait for the Critics
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