Day 119 - All the Money in the World



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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