All the Money in the World Critic Reviews
Greed
Information technology's almost incommunicable to separate what happened off screen with the last product of All the Coin in the Earth. With that said, Ridley Scott pretty much couldn't take washed a meliorate job at making a seamless transition from Kevin Spacey to Christopher Plummer in the function of J. Paul Getty. Inevitably that will exist the 1 thing people always remember about this film, merely in the finish, the film succeeds elsewhere as a thriller based around the kidnapping of Getty's grandson in Rome in 1973.
Perhaps the most impressive aspect of the motion picture is its not-cease pacing. Whether or non all of the bells and whistles of this story were true, Scott is determined to continue yous on the edge of your seat with suspense, even if you lot ultimately know where the story ends up. And luckily, this story is perfect for a cinematic experience. The truthful events are unfortunately tragic for many involved, merely in the end it'due south the character of J. Paul Getty that makes for a truly riveting character to watch. Not willing to budge to pay a single dime for his grandson'due south ransom is across frugal, and the fact that the events didn't play out in an even worse manor is a miracle.
Getty's pushback (or lack thereof) makes for a great back and along with his daughter in law, Gail Harris (played by Michelle Williams). Williams is brilliant in everything, and she one time once again kills it equally the drastic only under control mother of a kidnapped son. She will likely be overshadowed by Plummer come award shows, but Williams' talent will never get unnoticed from me.
Ultimately, All the Coin in the World is a fascinating tale of greed, frugality, power, and the differences in people's arroyo in high stress situations. From great performances to an impressive and important feat from Scott's concluding minute direction, I quite appreciated All the Money in the World.
7.9/10
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Compelling true-story presented exquisitely
The cinematography, fix details, directing and interim were all outstanding in this compelling true-story crime drama. Replacing Kevin Spacey with a re-shoot that cost 10M actress was seamless although the editing could have been tighter. The footstep could have also been a little faster to make the 133min length not feel like 160 mins. Otherwise a very enjoyable pic. 8/10 from me.
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your coin or his life
Greetings again from the darkness. The grandson of J Paul Getty, the wealthiest man in the world, was kidnapped while in Rome in 1973. That fascinating story holds more than plenty drama for an engaging movie, and certainly did not need the notoriety or creative challenges brought on by the Kevin Spacey scandal. With filming completed and a release date mere weeks away, manager Ridley Scott fabricated the decision to erase all show of Mr. Spacey's J Paul Getty, and replace him with Oscar winner Christopher Plummer. The "do-over" is about seamless and information technology's not a stretch to believe the 2d version turned out better than the first.
The precisely descriptive titled 1995 John Pearson book "Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Heirs of J Paul Getty" is adjusted by screenwriter David Scarpa, and information technology's the storytelling instincts of Mr. Ridley, and remarkable interim of Mr. Plummer and Michelle Williams that continue us engaged for the 132 minute run time.
16 year old John Paul Getty III is played by rising star Charlie Plummer ("Boardwalk Empire", no relation to Christopher), and though this is the story of his kidnapping and violent torture, the pic generally focuses on the contrasting personalities of his devoted mother Gail Harris (Michelle Williams) and his miserly grandfather J Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), the wealthiest man in the world. She is a woman totally committed to her children while spurning the strings attached to family unit money. He, on the other hand, has devoted his life to money and winning, ignoring anything that might exist construed as loyalty or compassion to family. Having but starred as Ebenezer Scrooge in THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS, this is just about the easiest transition an thespian could hope for, given and then piddling prep fourth dimension for a new role.
The billionaire Getty refuses to pay the ransom, instead dispatching his security specialist Fletcher Chase (Marker Wahlberg) to negotiate the male child'south release. As a one-time CIA operative, Chase misreads both the state of affairs with the abductors and the strength and determination of Gail. We get periodic looks at the captors and the environment where the grandson is beingness held. Romain Duris (THE BEAT THAT MY HEAR SKIPPED) is first-class as Cinquanta, the captor who spends the nigh time with the boy. The "ear" scene is explicit plenty to elicit groans and shrieks from the audience, so exist advised.
"Nosotros are not like you" is what the younger Getty tells u.s. as narrator, and he'southward correct. The ultra-rich live in a different earth than yous and I (assuming you aren't one of "them"), and that'southward never more clear than when the elder Getty explains his preference for things over people. While we never sympathise with the rich miser, manager Scott at to the lowest degree helps the states empathize what fabricated him tick. To him, life was a negotiation and it's all most winning - though his definition of winning could exist debated.
The two octogenarians, Mr. Scott (80) and Mr. Plummer (88) work wonders with the outstanding Ms. Williams to make this a relatable story and captivating picture show. The elderberry Getty died in 1976, 2 months to the mean solar day afterward Howard Hughes, while the grandson Getty had a massive drug overdose in 1981, and died in poor health in 2011, leaving behind his son, histrion Balthazar Getty.
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Passionless
The true story this film recreates could and should have made a crackling movie, but instead Ridley Scott delivers a serviceable picture show that hits all of its marks but feels rather bloodless on screen.
Equally pretty much everyone knows, Christopher Plummer was pulled in at the last minute to play J. Paul Getty, reshooting all of the scenes previously featuring Kevin Spacey in a performance nosotros will at present never come across cheers to the sexual harassment scandal that emerged about him. Getty refuses to pay the ransom when his grandson is kidnapped, much to the acrimony and frustration of his ex-daughter-in-law, played past Michelle Williams in a performance that struggles to rise above the middle-brow film making. Marking Wahlberg is Getty's chief security homo who'due south tasked with handling the situation and who eventually sours on Getty as he realizes what a cold-blooded monster he is. All of the performances are fine, but nothing about this picture show really ever comes fully to life. Everything we're supposed to experience is telegraphed every step of the mode, including the rather obvious moral that a life driven by the acquisition of money and stuff is leap to exist an empty one. And the finale, which should be a blast biter, instead is clunky and bad-mannered. Scott's management in the residual of the movie is bromidic but competent; his management of the film'due south climax is only bad.
Class: B-
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Coin is everything..!
This movie is one of old classy types where tension is built around dialogues and the predicament characters find themselves in. Christopher plummer is riveting as a greedy billionaire who thinks well-nigh evading tax in every walk of his life and want to be in control of everything he sees. Michelle williams is terrific equally a caring female parent and not the usual dumb potrayals yous unremarkably find in these kind of movies. She is smart, witty and sees hope fifty-fifty in darker moments . The scene where she asks "Exercise they want me to cry?" potrays the existent emotion people get through in situations like these. Mark wahlberg is more of a cliched grapheme where you can predict pretty much what he will do. At that place are intense scenes in 2nd half where the kid acted really well and you felt the pain character went through. Even though its a serious pic, you might observe humor in traces which made sure its an enjoyable watch.
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True-story crime drama from manager Ridley Scott was a logistical achievement
The picture tells the story of the 1973 kidnapping of J. Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer). He'south held for an exorbitant ransom, but the kidnappers effigy that since the young man's grandad is J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer), the richest man in the earth, he shouldn't take a problem paying it. They don't know Getty, a notorious cheapskate and skinflint who first refuses to pay any bribe, so tries to negotiate information technology downwardly to only an amount that is tax deductible. This naturally infuriates the boy's mother Gail Harris (Michelle Williams), who works with Getty family security chief Fletcher Chase (Mark Wahlberg) on getting the boy abode safely.
Director Scott keeps things moving swiftly forth, offering diverse snapshot flashbacks to moments in the Getty family unit past to aid illustrate the unique familial ties at play. Michelle Williams continues to show an amazing amount of range in her characterizations and accent work. Wahlberg has fiddling to do, and is at times a lark, although he gets a proficient "telling 'em off" scene near the end. Charlie Plummer (no relation to Christopher) is good as the unfortunate kidnap victim, and I was impressed with Romain Duris every bit a sympathetic kidnapper. Merely all eyes were on Christopher Plummer when this was released, thanks to all of the controversy.
As nigh will call back, original co-star Kevin Spacey became the focus of much public outrage later on accusations against him were made, and director Scott and the movie'south other producers made the unusual decision to completely reshoot his scenes with Plummer in the part, all mere weeks earlier the pic's scheduled release. Not only did they succeed, but I tin can't imagine Spacey beingness near every bit good as Plummer is every bit the soulless Getty patriarch. Plummer's Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor was viewed past many equally acknowledging the logistical accomplishment, , equally much as for the actual performance. Just while I could fence that Plummer's is actually a co-leading part, I will say that his nomination was warranted for the acting chore.
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Things coin tin can't purchase
Y'all may or may not exist aware of the fact that Christopher Plummer came on lath later Kevin Spacey had to go amidst controversy (sexual allegations from the past). So bring in Christopher Plummer - and you may endeavour to think at times how Kevin might accept done the same thing. Endeavor non to and instead enjoy the movie as it is.
Considering you could also think about pay inequality during the re-shoots. The moving-picture show itself might accept gotten some push button through the controversy or it might have gotten people annoyed. I know I wanted to watch information technology anyhow. And Ridley Scott is e'er a guarantee for quality, at least on the technical side. Just I'd debate the story works here too. Information technology may feel a bit cold and distant, only that'south on purpose ...
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Get the Getty story and an Oscar-worthy performance at the same fourth dimension.
"A Getty is special. A Getty is nobody'southward friend." J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer)
If Ridley Scott'south All the Money in the Globe does anything well, it shows the banality of crime and wealth, at least as this abduction/ransom motif plays out. It's the story inspired past the kidnapping of John Paul Getty III (Charlie Plummer) in 1973, his grandfather'southward resistance to paying the Italian Blood-red Brigade's bribe need, and the heroic effort of his mother, Gail Harris (Michelle Williams), to bring her son back alive.
After slogging through the tepid back story (disjointed to say the least), the story gains forcefulness through the passions of its leading players, both of whom have strong feelings about the correct way to respond to the kidnappers' demand for $17 million ransom. Mom would pay, considering grandpa is the richest human being who ever lived, and he does not in principle want to capitulate.
Nonetheless he may too have reasons to deny the ransom, one that paying would open floodgates of abductions for his other grandchildren and a bespeak made subsequently on but nonetheless fascinating history about the nature of the Getty fortune. Regardless, the central conflict of the story is not the kidnapping just the struggle between patriarch and daughter-in-law for the soul of the family and the deliverance of 3.
Although the cross editing between home and kidnappers is sometimes jarring, the director makes the audience feel as if information technology's present at the contentious proceedings. Trying to understand why the old man resists the bribe is a about difficult situation for parents who couldn't possibly do anything other than pay, just the audience tin can witness the arguments every bit if right in that location amid the players.
Coldness pervades this film, as if Scott were able to let the audience feel the lack of warmth from the old human being's. Several scenes prove him in forepart of large fireplaces, evoking a Denizen Kane ambience. Getty echoes the self-centered, aloof, alone Charles Foster Kane.
For the history and the interim, All the Money in the World is worth enjoying this season. Williams plays a resolute and resourceful female parent and Plummer infuses the Scrooge-similar Getty with a humanity that feels similar nosotros are with the real tycoon.
The film is also a cautionary tale about the corruption of wealth and the tenuous familial relations when coin is the major player. See it and be happy with your minor fortune, which may be, I hope, your loved ones.
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The movie non starring Kevin Spacey
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Ridley Scott revisits the kidnapping of teenager John Paul Getty Iii by Calabrian gangsters in 1973. JP'south parents are divorced; his begetter JPG II is zonked out on pot and other drugs in Morocco, but he has a devoted mother (Michelle Williams). His zillionaire grandad JPG the First (Christopher Plummer) refuses to pay the $17 1000000 ransom and tells his ex-CIA security chief (Mark Wahlberg) to rescue the boy.
The opening credits tell u.s. this is "inspired by real events". A few liberties have been taken with the facts every bit most of us recollect them, particularly towards the end of the movie. One delicious fact is the British Telecom payphone guests are obliged to utilise in the hall of Getty's magnificent Tudor mansion in Surrey.
Christopher Plummer is splendid if somewhat OTT equally the Scrooge-like mogul. The pace is adept, with lots of fast cutting betwixt the family and the kidnappers. It'south an okay pic, even a skilful movie, just it's not in the league of Scott's epic GLADIATOR (which, permit'due south not forget, heavily recycled the plot of BEN HURr).
The large story with ALL THE MONEY IN THE Globe is of course the surgical removal of Kevin Spacey from the first concluding impress following his "fall from grace". I read that Spacey'southward bio-movie of Gore Vidal is at present unlikely to exist released - a story I'd very much like to see. Is his dorsum-list as well going to be shelved, meaning that we will never again see AMERICAN Beauty or THE USUAL SUSPECTS? Will Harvey Weinstein'due south output (including Lurid FICTION, KILL Pecker and -i of my all-time favourites - SHAKESPEARE IN Dearest) besides disappear from TV screens and online video stores?
Withal vile the "crimes" these two men (and others) have been accused of (and constitute guilty in the court of public opinion), it surely does not totally degrade the work they - and everyone else involved in those productions - have achieved?
Only asking.
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Hostages to Fortune
Watching this film reminded me of the old joke about Jack Benny being held up with the demand "Your coin or your life!!" Followed by a long silence.
"Well?" The hold-upward human being finally demands.
"I'm thinking, I'm thinking...!"
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More miserly than Getty himself
Saw 'All the Money in the World' due to that its subject is incredibly interesting. Ridley Scott has also some bang-up films ('Alien' and 'Blade Runner' especially are masterpieces of their genre), the cast is a talented one (particularly Michelle Williams and Christopher Plummer) and the trailer was one of the best of the year.
It saddens me to say this, but 'All the Coin in the World' is really not ane of Scott'south best and doesn't do this story justice. By all means not a terrible film, but 'All the Money in the World' is a classic case of the trailer being much improve than the flick, other than the production values and some of the acting very fiddling of what made the trailer as proficient as it was translated in the film.
'All the Money in the World' does have skillful things. Other than some jerky, bogus-looking moments (so understandably those scenes were going to be rushed due to having to be done at last minute) to adjust original star Kevin Spacey's last minute replacement Christopher Plummer, it is a well made film. It is very slickly photographed, evocatively designed and the drabness and darkness suited the mood perfectly. The music has moments of haunting intensity but doesn't overbear things while even so having presence.
Regarding Scott's direction, it is competent on the most part, excelling in the visuals and the management of Williams and Plummer. You would never estimate that Plummer was non the original option for Getty and was brought in equally last resort to supplant Spacey, only some of the style the re-done scenes were washed betrayed this but honestly this is ignorable equally a flaw because it was understandable considering the circumstances. Judging from his powerhouse performance as this miserly and very enigmatic man, one would think actually that he was the original star all the time.
Williams is similarly brilliant, a raw intensely heart-breaking portrayal, where every kind of emotion is brought out and one of very few things in the film that shows whatever urgency or emotional affect for the state of affairs. Romain Duris does his all-time but the writing works confronting him.
Not all the cast work. Mark Wahlberg just doesn't fit and takes one of the setting, also succeeding in making Chase bland and annoying. Charlie Plummer doesn't make ane sympathize with him much and plays John Paul in too bratty and ane-dimensional a way. Those playing the villains endure the worst of the writing, they are all sketchy ciphers that are never fully fleshed out and despite their increasing brutality at that place is nada menacing almost them.
The script is a really big problem here. Very rambling, some of it adding very little, and sometimes repetitive. Information technology barely scratches the surface and never brings out the substance underneath, although Plummer and Williams do their absolute best to bring this out and succeed because they are such conscientious actors. This dilutes whatever emotional bear upon or tension completely.
Pacing too poses equally merely as big a problem. It is incredibly sluggish and too many scenes experience like over-stretched padding. The story is just non-stop emptiness and is very disjointed. The scenes with Williams and those with Plummer and the subplot with the captors and John Paul experience like two different films, sometimes confusingly done. The ending should take ended the film with a bang, instead 'All the Money in the Earth' had already petered out besides early on and provides a climax that is laboured, contrived and nonsensical (Scott'southward management is besides at its worst).
Overall, not a waste material only very underwhelming considering the talent and the story. Getty may take been a notorious miser, the film manages to be more than miserly than him, an unheard of feat i would think but information technology happened here. 5/10 Bethany Cox
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Heart of the Needle
There is a passage from the Bible that says that it is easier for a camel to laissez passer through the eye of a needle, than for a rich human to enter into heaven. This movie is a testament to that. The interim is outstanding, you really feel like y'all are there. The mood of Italy and Europe of the 1970s infuses the motion-picture show. Terrorism is in the air with the Munich Olympics of 1972, the Red Brigades and Baader-Meinhof gang. The delineation of Getty the oil magnate is shown to us by his various statements and actions. A truly gothic character. The gangster kidnappers are besides frightening in their normal everyday lives that accept criminality as if it were similar a walk in the park. Hard to believe a time of phone booths, ringing telephones and sending letters. Ransom demands took fourth dimension.
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"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars"
J. Paul Getty (Christopher Plummer) was the richest man in the world when his grandson (Charlie Plummer) was kidnapped in 1973. He refused to pay a dime of the $17 million dollar, maxim he couldn't afford it and it would ready a bad precedent. The boy'southward mother (Michelle Williams) is left with only the aid of the Italian police and a former CIA operative who works for Getty (Marking Wahlberg) to help recover her son.
The film unfolds in a tense drama that keeps the audience on the edge of their seats. Michelle Williams is fantastic equally a desperate female parent willing to practice anything to relieve her kid, simply having to fight Getty just as much as the kidnappers. Wahlberg is also surprisingly proficient as the one-time CIA homo that is really a negotiator, non a super spy. The real star is Christopher Plummer'due south Getty. He is outstanding as an old frail man who built an empire through ruthless negotiations and frugality and refuses to deviate from that even to save his own grandson. His misguided priorities are perfectly displayed by him claiming to not exist able to afford the bribe and then spending millions on a new painting. Plummer's performance is all the more impressive considering he stepped in at the last minute and shot all of his scenes in merely 8 days.
Ridley Scott blends the experiences of the hostage Paul Getty with the worry of his mother and the indifference of his grandfather beautifully. In that location is very little wasted move and my biggest complaints are just the occasionally confusing decisions by some characters, but those decisions are all the ones made by real people at the time, then I can inappreciably fault Scott.
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This reminds me of" Dynasty" minus the shoulder pads
A wealthy oil man's grandson is kidnapped. His son is a broke and gave nothing to his wife in the divorce. Years later the divorced couples son is kidnapped in Rome merely show points that the boy n may take staged his own kidnapping.
The acting in this is corking. The moving picture however seems to go on 2way to long and well-nigh viewers who see this at abode volition be able to hit the "Fast Forrard Button"
Worth watching simply if you lot have a limited attending bridge then skip it
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Plummer Kidnaps The Film
How does Plummer practice information technology? Shows upwardly on a day or ii observe, then proceeds to steal the picture from underneath everyone! He is incredible, those Golden Earth & Oscar noms were deserved. Scott is an expert director, and knows how to pace, stage and film each and every scene perfectly. Wahberg hasn't been as good as this since 'The Departed', and Michelle Williams is a revelation. Goodbye Streep, I'll take Michelle anyday! This plays equally a gritty thriller, tempered with some sense of humour, inside a great script that maintains your interest and no fat left to trim! I loved this motion picture, I promise the controversy over recasting doesn't keep anyone from enjoying information technology!
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Fairly bland - with the exception of Christopher Plummer
By now, nearly everyone knows most the last minute switch of Christopher Plummer in place of electric current-pariah Kevin Spacey every bit pivotal Billionaire J. Paul Getty in Ridley Scott's ALL THE Coin IN THE WORLD, so when I checked out Plummer'due south Oscar nominated turn, I couldn't but help meet if I could tell when Scott put in a new scene and where he just "augmented" his scenes with Plummer. And then, a funny thing happened...
I stopped looking at this for I was captivated by Plummer'south functioning.
A 3 time Oscar nominee (he is the oldest person to win an Academy Honour - at the age of 82 - for his Supporting Role in BEGINNERS in 2010), the 88 year sometime Plummer shows that he can still control a motion picture for anytime he is on screen this film crackles and becomes interesting.
Unfortunately, the same cannot be said for the rest of the film.
Telling the story of the kidnapping of Getty's grandson, and the "richest human in the globe'southward" refusal to pay the ransom, ALL THE Money IN THE WORLD stars Charlie Plummer (no relation) every bit John Paul Getty Three (the kidnapped grandson), Mark Wahlberg every bit "fixer" Fletcher Chase, who was told by Getty to get his grandson back for "the lowest possible cost", Romain Duris as i of the kidnappers and the great Michelle Williams as the mother of the kidnapped boy - and the girl-in-police of Getty, Gail Harris. Each ane of these performances are adept, but not great. Doing what needs to be done in what they are given to do only zero more.
I think the problem with this film is 1 of focus. It spends nearly 50% of the fourth dimension with William'due south character - and this is fine, but then it jumps to the kidnapped son, to "the fixer", to "the kidnapper", to the grandson and back to the mother, and so no existent through-line, continuity or strong character development can occur, with the exception of Christopher Plummer's J. Paul Getty. To be fair to Williams, C. Plummer has the showier office and she is just asked to be the middle of this tale, the earth in which all else revolves and that, ultimately, makes her character somewhat bland.
I place the blame for this on Screenwriter David Scarpa (based on the volume by John Pearson) and Manager Scott. I call up their accomplish exceeded their grasp on this 1. If they could take focused more on one of the characters - instead of spreading things out - perhaps this film would take become more interesting and less banal. Information technology stays on one annotation - despite jumping to different people in vastly different situations - throughout it's ii 60 minutes and fifteen minute time frame.
All in all, a missed opportunity. Information technology is a decent film that had the potential to be VERY good. The just one who was VERY skilful was Christopher Plummer - and certainly his performance is worth the price of admission.
Letter Course: B
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A drama without drama
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This could have been a human drama of unbearable tension instead it's a movie manufactured with devious intentions. Devious in the real world, in picture show making terms is totally accepted to practice anything to lure people into the movie theaters. Probably their marketing people thought that a detailed slicing of an ear may do it. It fabricated me so angry. No tension, no passion. The only reason to see the film is Michelle Williams. I didn't realized it was her until well into the movie, in fact until she has a scene with Mark Whalberg. She is real and truthful, when they stay with her everything works. Christopher Plummer plays the old mean billionaire to perfection just I must admit I thought of Kevin Spacey throughout. Everything is shot without real thought backside it. I liked the wind taking over the newspapers but the kidnappers remain a blurry mystery to me, who were they really? They looked like actors to me.
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Would have been better if they stuck to the facts
Although this dragged on and on for most of the picture, the addition of the totally OTT fictitious rescue chase scene at the end, pushed this film into the ridiculous. On top of that, the portrayal as the mother as the new "heir" was just and so stùpid, and further pushed this into unrealistic and simplistic happily e'er later stories.
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Money Coin Money
I think the stories of Paul Getty with pay phones in his house for his guests. He was always a motion picture male child for the horrors of money. Nobody paid whatsoever attention to the horrors not the real ones anyway, just the outside ones of opulence, meanness and greed. Everything for and because of money, everything. The kidnapping of young J Paul Getty caught the attention of the globe then, the plight of his mother is the stuff smashing drama is fabricated of and hither Michelle Williams does wonders with her character. She is totally truthful, one hundred per cent of the fourth dimension, simply her managing director doesn't know how to capture it. The film is a rambling, repetitious, undramatic product by Ridley Scott. I didn't detect whatever real thought backside it. Just adroitness and that sometimes is enough, but non this fourth dimension. I suppose money was also behind this enterprise. Even the stitching of Christopher Plummer in place of Kevin Spacey has a totally commercial connotation. Marker Whalberg? I like him only everyone laughed when he appeared on the screen. So completely out of place, specially when confronted past the powerful actuality of the wonderful Michelle Williams. All in all a dispiriting affair in more ways than ane.
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Give Me Your Money
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I was familiar with the entire saga and I was eager to see the Ridley Scott dramatization of the events. Now I saw it. A truly depressing movie feel by the managing director of the original Blade Runner (I'one thousand not going to talk about the 2017 version) All past the numbers with a commercial eye that, I must say, is faltering big time. Did you see Scott'due south version of Robin Hood with Russell Crowe? No, here Scott attempts the conquering of box office grosses past a close upwards of J Paul Getty's ear every bit he's been mutilated. What a shame! Ridley Scott had the extraordinary Michelle Williams to play the mother and she is the one that makes it true even if the script doesn't provide her with well structured scenes and gives her Mark Whalberg to bounce of. He seems the hostage at times, delivering his lines without an ounce of real confidence. Charlie Plummer (oddly enough no relation to Christopher Plummer) is lovely and Christopher Plummer appears as a techno distraction but if they thought nosotros were not going to be replacing Plummer for Spacey in our minds, all the time - aware of the performance as well as the technical wonder - they were incorrect. As we left the theater that was the main topic of conversation. Plummer/Spacey. I'm afraid that greed played a office in this operation.
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Disappointing!!
I was really looking forward to watching this motion-picture show. I thought: amazing true story, skillful bandage, smashing director... Information technology has to be corking, right? Wrong!!!
I'm very disappointed! Start of all, there was absolutely no need to change the story. This shouldn't have been a motion picture that was "inspired" by real events. Meaning, they should take stuck with the actual story, step by stride. What happened to John Paul Getty Iii is absolutely amazing! Why in the world would they change it is across me! The details that were left out of the motion-picture show and the things they added to it (that didn't really happen) but destroyed the story!
Second, this is non Mark Wahlberg's and Michelle Williams' best performances. Christopher Plummer and Charlie Plummer did a much better job.
Third, I didn't like the footstep of the movie. It was slow and wearisome at parts.
All in all, it wasn't what I expected from a Ridley Scott movie! The just thing I really liked was the title of the movie because it is and so true and accurate - all the money in the world couldn't saved this family.
This could and should accept been a breathtaking flick!
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Ridley Scott delivered a cold direction of greed and wealth but with stunning performances.
All the Money in the Earth (3.5 out of v stars).
All the Money in the World is a fairly well criminal offense thriller film based on actual events when John Paul Getty III is kidnapped and held for ransom when his billionaire gramps refuses to pay a cent.
The pros about the film? The performances were dandy. Michelle Williams playing JPG Three female parent and volition practice whatsoever it takes to get her son back. Her operation of trying to convince her grandfather in police to help pay the bribe. Christopher Plummer delivered a great operation. Mark Wahlberg was good as well playing an advisor and an operative to the Getty family unit.
Managing director Ridley Scott tin can deliver some powerful performances in a dramatic film. Look at American Gangster or The Martian. Sure, this is non like sci fi films like Aliens or Prometheus. Information technology is slow moving and all most a family and the theme of greed. Especially on a powerful guy who is greedy and only has desire on wanting more money.
The cons of the film? I felt similar the music score was weak with the film. The music score beingness done by Daniel Pemberton. The setting takes place in the 1970s and could have used the reward with a 70s soundtrack or a fitting score. But it just did non fit in with the film.
The flick can be slow at times from a script by David Scarpa. But the motion-picture show is left undeveloped with the characters played by Michelle Williams and Marking Wahlberg. Making it very forgettable.
Overall, it is a pretty fair film. The performances and direction was great. Information technology can be slow and lack a thrilling build upward with the music score.
I do recommend seeing this film.
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"Nosotros look like you, but we're aught like yous"
"All The Money In the World" (2017 release; 132 min.) is "inspired by true events", we are reminded at the first. As the movie opens, we are told information technology is "Rome, 1973", where we see the xvi year. old Paul Getty (whose granddaddy J. Paul Getty is the richest man in the earth'due south history) is wandering the streets of Rome belatedly one night, only to be abducted. Soon thereafter the abductors need a bribe of $17 million (near $99 one thousand thousand in today's money). When Paul's mom approaches the elder Getty, he refuses to pay. The vocalisation over past Paul reminds us: "We look just like you lot but are nothing like y'all..." The picture then gives us the nutshell version of how J Paul Getty made his fortune, taking us to "Kingdom of saudi arabia 1948" and the "Toulon, France Shipyard, 1958". At this signal we're 10 min. into the movie but to tell y'all more of the plot would spoil your viewing experience, you'll only have to see for yourself how information technology all plays out.
Couple of comments: this is the latest movie from director Ridley Scott, now a crisp 80 years young if you can believe it. Here he recounts the events surrounding the kidnapping of J. Paul Getty's grandson.. I hope for your enjoyment's sake that, as was the case for me, yous don't know how this ends up, I don't desire to say much more than than that, other than to concur on to your chairs... You take have heard that, resulting from the sexual set on allegations, the movie makers decided to reshoot his scenes... afterwards the picture had been completed and with less than five weeks to go before its release. Scott obviously relished the claiming, and Christopher Plummer was recast at J Paul Getty. Non only did the motion-picture show makers pull information technology off, just I accept to say that Plummer is and then outstanding in this office, that I cannot imagine Spacey for this role. Plummer casts a long shadow (in the best possible way) over this motion-picture show, virtually at the expense of Michelle Williams (as Paul's female parent). Mark Wahlberg plays Hunt, a former CIA operative and designated by Getty as the negotiator to try and get Paul released. Bottom line: this is a bang-up existent life crime drama that also looks at the isolating outcome of being so rich that y'all never know whether anyone effectually yous is sincere or simply in it for the money.
"All The Coin In the World" opened wide today. While I wanted to meet it, it was actually my grown-upward kids who choose this for our annual Christmas Day movie. The early evening screening where we saw this at here in Cincinnati was completely sold out downward to the last seat, Given the positive fizz and word-of-mouth this motion picture will likely create, this pic may take surprisingly long legs at the box office, fifty-fifty more so if high profile award nominations proceed to come up in (information technology already did quite well with 4 Golden Globe nominations). In any issue, I encourage you to check out "All the Money in the World", exist it in the theater, on Amazon Instant Video or eventually on DVD/Blu-ray, and draw your own conclusions.
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Startling story only a sometimes slow and routine telling of information technology
All the Coin in the Globe (2017)
What an extreme pathology, yet with a twist. J. Paul Getty was known to me mostly as the man who left a fortune when he died that became the Getty Fine art Museum. Which was famous (and still is) for having deep pockets. Very deep. And so Getty, from 20th Century oil enterprises, was really rich.
Hence the name of the movie. Merely they should accept clued the states in, I suppose (for ameliorate sales) that information technology's about Getty's grandson, who early in the movie (no spoiler) gets kidnapped. What follows is a two part story--the kidnappers and their prey, and the granddaddy and other family members.
And it'southward the grandfather who matters most, played with conviction past a rather also-old Christopher Plummer (as a famous last infinitesimal substitute for someone who we won't mention). Plummer is ruthless and seemingly heartless. His daughter-in-law is the one sympathetic grapheme here (too the grandson, I suppose, just he isn't adult very far), and she suffers and struggles. It's her son out at that place in the hands of some thugs.
The movie is proficient, very skilful in some ways, just routinely made. The story is great, and then that holds information technology upwards, yet the pacing is slow, which brings it dorsum to globe. The kidnappers are fabricated to seem interesting and one of them (played past the great French thespian Romain Duris) is given some depth, but really this is the other half of a fascinating situation, and some nuance would have been bang-up. Surprisingly, this is not just produced by also directed by Ridley Scott. And this lacks the originality and spark we'd expect from him. Just Plummer is terrific and then is Michelle Williams as the daughter/mother. Marker Wahlberg is a drip and a mistake (he plays a kind of exercise-it-all homo for Getty, and he'southward very average).
Even so, lots of interesting twists, and a worthy story for a moving-picture show.
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Flat.
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Entertaining for certain, but the overall movie felt a petty flat to me. It seemed as though the film was ultimately centered around Getty'southward fortune, understandably so (i.e. the championship of the picture show), and less around the actual kidnapping. The films "crescendo" just didn't feel satisfying to me.
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