Day
119 All
the Money in the World [2017]
Screenplay David Scarpa
Based on ‘Painfully Rich: The Outrageous Fortunes and
Misfortunes of the Heirs of J. Paul Getty’ by John Pearson
Director Ridley Scott
Cinematography Dariusz Wolski
Music Daniel
Pemberton
Leads Michelle
Williams, Christopher Plummer, Mark Wahlberg, Romain Duris, Charlie Plummer,
Andrew Buchan
Production Imperative Entertainment, Scott Free Productions
IMDb 6.9/10
Rotten Tomatoes 78%
No-one
can deny Ridley Scott’s huge contribution to the world of film. I just wanted to
get that out there before I say that this film was easy to sleep through and
unfortunately the news surrounding the film was far more exciting than the film
itself. In fact, if you made a film about the making of this film, it would probably
have been better. Hollywood again incredibly biased to one of its own praising
this film far more than it deserved. Ridley is quite scary to be fair, maybe
they didn’t want to get on his bad side… I think it’s the writing and
potentially the directing that let this film down. The acting was pretty good,
I particularly thought Charlie Plummer and Romain Duris shone in this, creating
by far the most interesting scenes between kidnapper and kidnapped. If you read
my blog often you will already know of my crush on Michelle Williams and my
wonder at her enormous talent. Mark Wahlberg still flits between being a
serious actor (The Departed, The Fighter, Boogie Nights) and a joke (Ted,
Pain & Gain, Transformers), personally I like watching his movies and
you can’t deny his success. He has incredible work ethic, and I guess even if a
movie flops he is still being paid an obscene amount. For example, he was paid $1.5 million dollars
for the reshoot of this movie after Kevin Spacey’s scenes were removed.
Michelle Williams, in contrast received only $1000. However, I was totally on
Wahlberg’s side. It’s not up to him how much they all get paid and he also
donated all of the money to the Time’s Up movement in Williams’ name – what a
man. Should Spacey have been removed from the film? I reckon Scott did it more because
he was worried about the film being boycotted in the midst of all the Time’s
up/Me Too drama, than because he actually cared. He was also thinking about the
publicity it may get. Unfortunately, although Christopher Plummer does a
fantastic job, the publicity overshadowed the film entirely. I wouldn’t bother
watching this. A YouTube video on how they used CGI to replace Stacey would
probably be more interesting and save you a lot of time.
Acting 3.5 / 4
Writing 2 / 4
Cinematography 3 / 4
Music 3 / 4
HWF rating 2.5 / 4
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