Margin Call [Blu-ray]

Extraordinary. It moves you slowly into the strange world of investment banking, and unheard of terms (let alone understood) like Credit Default Swap and CDO. But it's so fascinating you want to know about this secret world, which can impact all our lives. I kept waiting for someone to get shot or pushed down an empty elevator shaft, and it was refreshing there was none of that nonsense. Just solid writing.It moves very slowly, which makes the suspense even more intense. There's lots of symbolism: the death of the beloved labrador dog of one of the bosses, the cleaning woman in the elevator, representing all the little people, standing passively between two of the top traders as they openly exchange info with each other because they know she won't have a clue to what they're discussing. Oh, and the conversation between Will and his recently-fired boss Eric is brilliant.Fantastic cast! Kevin Spacey, Demi Moore, Jeremy Irons, Paul Bettany, Zachary Quinto, Simon Baker, Stanley Tucci, etc. are so right on. I wrote down all the things I didn't understand, so I would educate myself and understand them the next time I watched it.And the second time really was better, because I had a good idea of what was really happening out there. It's kind of a morality play; unlike Too Big to Fail, a good movie which was more historically factual but with less insight, the cast struggles through uncomfortable conundrums and personal motives.Anyone interested in Wall Street and what's going on behind those protected doors should love this movie, but one caveat: I've never seen a movie that squeezed so many f bombs into two hours. Holy cow, is that how they really talk?

The product arrived as advertised and met all my expectations in terms of quality. It performed just as described, and I had no issues using it. I would definitely purchase it again if I found myself in the same situation.

Very good movie.

This was a good movie and good DVD. It features a good cast and I recommend it.

The best 'fictionalized' movie depiction of the true chaos and criminal behavior of the 2007-2008 global financial crisis, seen from within an investment bank that could very well just be called "Lehman Brothers".As a banker who worked during the crisis (and knew all too well how rotten Lehman's books were, filled with garbage structured securities - admittedly every major investment bank had some level of mis-priced CMBS, CDO holdings - but Lehman was the worst of the bunch, followed closely by Citigroup) this movie does an excellent job of depicting how traders tried to dump these securities onto investors as the crisis was beginning.Bankers 'financial engineering', creating and selling mortgage-backed securities -- whose true underlying value was never clearly understood by most bankers in the first place and relied on the false premise that housing values always increase -- was one key cause of inflating the credit bubble, as the 'risk' of loan repayment was moved from lenders to investors but the movie does not get too deep into the causes of the crisis (for more on that I recommend the excellent, Academy-award winning documentary 'Inside Job')In terms of showing the frantic nature of Wall St. once the cracks began to show however, the movie -largely- gets the facts and events correct. In addition to simply telling a largely true story, the movie itself is a riveting piece of drama with top-notch performances from its star-studded cast; Kevin Spacey, Stanley Tucci, Simon Baker, Demi Moore and Jeremy Irons are all at the top of their game (Spacey deserved an Oscar nod for his work). Paul Bettany and Zachary Quinto add to these excellent ensemble acting.5 Stars and a must-see.

I am not sure if one needs to be in the investment industry (as I am), or older and having experience with management, corporate decision making (which I am and have LOL) to fully enjoy the depth of this film. The dialog is outstanding. Very interesting watching upper management only care about the company and themselves. The continued success and "got mine" of those in charge, or supplied with wonderful parachute type packages is semi shocking and norm for upper management officers. Our economic disaster of 2008-2010 is presented in its most naked form via this film as to USA corporate banks. They/we bundled mortgage related products with lower ratings B, BB, BBB, A or even C ratings, coupled with a mathmatical formula the said the odds of them all failing was nearly impossible. So the products got AAA ratings by Moodys and S&P !!!!. Then the banking firms sold trillions to each other, who then borrowed trillions from other firms using these AAA rated products as collaterical.. Then the products freaking failed as housing collapased/jobs lost and people could not pay their mortgages!!!!!!!!!!!!!We damn near destroyed the entire economic world....Gotta love this film although skirts the true harm of what we did. But presents a fantastic insight into how the corporate profit at all cost world really works; Got Mine, Keep My Job, Make Money, hope I am not fired..... And as you get older (like me), you pray, you can keep your health care benefits LOL..... I watched it twice over a week. A first for me, and even enjoyed it a little more the 2nd time. "First out the Door, that is not panic".... Classic line. Really means, you saw the disaster coming first, got out, how can that be panic? LOL...CheersDavid