RyothChatty ridiculous rating

Inadvands Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Sexyloutak Absolutely the worst movie.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Prismark10 Oscar winning director Barry Levinson had big success by teaming up with HBO on You Don't Know Jack.This time Levinson and HBO have teamed up with Robert De Niro on the true life tale of Bernie Madoff whose fake investment vehicle was exposed during the 2008 financial crisis. Madoff operated a Ponzi/Pyramid scheme where you robbed Peter to pay Paul.When you have movies such as The Big Short and Margin Call that have done a brutal expose of the financial crisis, The Wizard of Lies just felt redundant with an almost movie of the week sheen about it.The film had a confusing narrative and an uneven script. It wants to explain the investigation on Madoff, what his sons knew about the firm's precarious position as well as explain Madoff's investment fraud to the audience.It was best when it was at its simplest. Bernie Madoff telling someone he was a simple man from a humble family then throwing a lavish party where he wanted fresh lobsters caught that morning, not freshly frozen and clean plates. Madoff and his family lived an extravagant lifestyle, it was all based on other people's money. Madoff targeted wealthy Jews like him and royally ripped them off. Once he was exposed many of his victims found out that they were penniless.I found the film dragged and was rather boring. Despite a sterling performance from De Niro and being based on true, tragic events, it was just not interesting enough.

Gordon-11 This film tells the story of the biggest scandal on Wall Street, where a multi-billionaire swindles billions out of his customers in a giant Ponzi scheme.What makes "The Wizard of Lies" interesting and captivating is that it does not get into the technical stuff of Wall Street. It focuses on the human side of the characters, namely their thoughts, their hopes and their dreams. The scene when Mr Madoff tells Mark that he is not up to scratch for the business is really heart breaking. Mark's brief and simple responses tell so much, and the viewers are left to fill in the blanks regarding the disappointment and devastation that Mark must have felt. Mrs Madoff's misfortune of being blamed for something she had no involvement in is very sad as well. The whole film makes me feel very sorry for the Madoff family. "The Wizard of Lies" has good story telling, and it has a good story to tell.

ElliesWonder My mood was ambivalent after this movie, I felt bad for the character even he is a criminal. The feeling is only towards to the movie character basic on the plot, not to the real Bernie Madoff. Anyway, I knew nothing about this former financier, except the legend of the oldest supermodel, Carmen Dell' Orefice, she was a victim I heard, and been forced to go back stage in old age because all her money invested into Bernie's programs.I feel sorry, but not really in a strong compassion, I am not heartless, but I can't have an empathy with something I never been though. Just like newspapers have countless bad news everyday, people feel sad about those news, but we move on and turn to another page afterward. It was difficult to shed my tears of compassion for them, especially in age ago.Besides, as a sapiosexual, I can't avoid being attracted to a high intelligence character, even he is criminal. Playing with $65 billions, I just want to ask the same question as the New York Times journalism as, how could he sleep with that giant Ponzi scheme? A lie needs more lies to complete, giving a lie requires facial expressions control, logical thinking ability, and prognosis ability, that is why lying is so difficult, and lies from kids are easy to nail because their cognize and emotion are so limited. It was simply fascinating and attractive to watch this story based on the plot. He was genius no doubt, but sadly not used in right way.

angelod-41401 The Wizard of Lies had a great cast and also great usage of dialogue. However, some of the moments have prolonged moments of business talking and family discussions that you have no background on. Although, some moments of those discussions impact the story and aren't boring. SPOILERS AHEAD: Some of the scenes that have the violent content are intense and very eerie. For example, the aftermath of the suicide is very creepy with the dark lighting and horrifying score. DeNiro did an amazing job in this film and really portrayed the feel the real Bernie felt when he betrayed his family and many other people. The brothers (I thought) did an excellent job. Bernie's wife really had that spoiled rich person feel which while at the time annoying, true. That's how people act when they are given that much power and money. That's all I have to say about The Wizard of Lies.