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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community Mar 20, 2004
Pros: Good performances, dialog
Cons: Weak story, women not given much to do, profanity
Summary: "Greed is good." Wall Street "ABC - Always Be Closing." Glengarry Glen Ross I recently re-watched Wall Street on the special edition DVD and that reminded me of Boiler Room (2000), so I fished out my copy to get a double dose of ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Oct 12, 2011
Pros: Performances, characters, entertaining story
Cons: Finale is way too contrived and mechanical
Summary: Giovanni Ribisi plays a college dropout who is constantly trying to please his judgemental and emotionally distant father (Ron Rifkin), who just happens to actually be a judge. He runs a small (but quite efficiently run) illegal casino out of his ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 21, 2003
Pros: Excellent done movie that shows what actually may go one with the trading life.
Cons: Doesn't seem realistic enough, over exagerated.
Summary: This movie shows corruption in the trading world when a company is sellin fake stock to people. This firm breaks many laws but has an insider, only by blackmail, to help crack the case. Seth, the main character, is new in the business and is starting ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 3, 2002
Pros: The great acting, great plot, phenomenal ending, wondrous chemistry.
Cons: Some unrealistic situations.
Summary: This movie is excellent. There is such a wonderful combination that makes it so successful in my eyes. Statistically, this movie isn’t successful because it didn’t make a lot of money. But, of the people that did see Boiler Room, this movie is considered ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 30, 2001
Pros: High energy story and performances!
Cons: None
Summary: Promises of fast money, fine cars, and success are the dreams the Boiler Room is made of. This film by first timer Ben Younger exposes one of the biggest and most profitable scams of the 90's. These fly-by-night brokerage firms, filled with ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 20, 2001
Pros: Sharp and to the point, best Ribisi film yet! Good soundtrack too!!!
Cons: This film drags a bit toward the end... But it wasn't too bad.
Summary: This was a beautifully pieced together film with such actors as Vinn Diesel, and Giovanni Ribisi, making their best acting roles yet. If you've seen Diesel's acting in Pitch Black and liked it, you should definitly check out this movie, absolutely ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jul 19, 2001
Pros: Ribisi; well acted
Cons: Boom - it's over
Summary: I liked but didn't love this movie... Ribisi clearly has talent and I look forward to watching more of his movies.
Ribisi plays Seth Davis, a college drop-out running a casino out of his apartment. It is clear he enjoys his work, is making ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
May 25, 2001
Pros: Similar to Wall Street
Cons: Not enough action
Summary: I enjoyed this film, as with Wall Street. But I would have liked to see more action scenes. More fight sequences between the actors. For example, the bar scene there was a fight and then it disapeared. Other then this, I enjoyed the relevence the ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Apr 23, 2001
Pros: Captures the era of Internet mania
Cons: Yet another "everyone on Wall Street is evil" flick
Summary: It should be no surprise to most of us who have worked on the Street, that most of the movies that have been written about our profession have focused on the stockbroker. Main Street does not understand what we do.
I remember at one cocktail ... read more
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Rated a Somewhat Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 12, 2001
Pros: If you are really in to trading and another finance business, this is your movie!
Cons: If you don't care how business is handled in Wall Street, don't bother!
Summary: Well, I have to admit I rented this movie just because I heard that Ben Affleck is in it,
but I never thought that he was just a side character and is seen in Boiler Room only about 10 minutes.
The plot was quite believable, I guess this kind ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Mar 9, 2001
Pros: As real as real can get. Great acting.
Cons: A black eye for the financial industry
Summary: Boiler Room shows the dark side of the financial industry where investing is turned into a con. Seth Davis(GIOVANNI RIBISI) plays a college drop out who runs a homebased illegal casino operation. After taking heat over the casino from his father, ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 26, 2001
Pros: Nice plot, interesting subject matter
Cons: A bit slow
Summary: I will admit that I saw this movie just because it starred Giovanni Ribisi. I am a big fan of his...
"Boiler Room," is about Wall Street Shark wanna-be's who run this firm that rips a whole bunch of people off. Ben Affleck, who is rarely ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 19, 2001
Pros: Great drama about the scams of wall street. Great acting by Affleck and Ribisi
Cons: Ending is weak!
Summary: This is one of my favorite movies. I like it at many levels: the acting, the story, the concept. The ending is weak however. What amazes me is that after the movie, Ben Affleck and others were scammed on just like they did in this movie. You would think ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 8, 2001
Pros: Are you kidding me....
Cons: Everything from the opening credits to the closing credits
Summary: To Quote the old Reese Peanut Butter Cup Commercial-
"You got Peanut Butter on my Chocolate....
You got Chocolate on my peanut butter."
After seeing this movie, I thought "You got Wall Street in my Glenn Gary Glenross! You ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Jan 7, 2001
Pros: Reasonable plot; good cast
Cons: Haunting portrayal of a stock scam
Summary: Boiler Room is more than a movie - it is an unintended documentary about the sad state our financial industry has reached when corrupt organizations can scam money from our citizens. The plot involves a son who can't measure up to his father's ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 29, 2000
Pros: Excellent acting all around.
Cons: Ending...a little too abrupt
Summary: Where this movie may be tagged as a rags to riches, making a quick buck, the dirty underbelly of stock market, what this movie truly is is a timeless son wanting his father to accept him movie.
Ribisi plays a young college dropout who has been ... read more
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Rated a Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 3, 2000
Pros: Great movie
Cons: none
Summary: REVIEW: Boiler Room is the best movie i've seen in a long while. It is alot like Wall Street but this one is more modernized with the rap music and language and in my opinion I liked this one better.
A young man has dropped out of Queens ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 3, 2000
Pros: Essentials of Top Producing Sales Closers!
Cons: For Sales people or Trainers ONLY!
Summary: Other than training people for computers and flipping real estate;
I write home loans for a major midwest bank! In short, I'm a CLOSER!
This movie is primarily for sales people and top producers like myself!
I've been an avid fan of Tony ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Dec 2, 2000
Pros: Strong cast, almost a great screenplay
Cons: A little pretentious, with a story as old as time
Summary: Distilled of all but its most essential elements, Ben Younger's first film, Boiler Room, is a hybrid movie: it's a slicked-back documentary about the writer-director's past life in a stock brokerage firm, and a fairly hackneyed story of a young ... read more
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Rated a Very Helpful Review by the Epinions community
Nov 8, 2000
Pros: White-knuckle tension, a rat-a-tat-tat script, and first-rate acting fuel this film
Cons: An abrupt ending and a couple of detouring subplots are its only flaws
Summary: I don’t know an IPO from HBO and when someone talks about “the market,” I still picture a little old lady, handbasket slung over one arm, haggling over the price of fresh fish with an apron-wearing street vendor. So, I approach a movie like Boiler ... read more
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