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Meanwhile Brad Pitt plays Ben Rickert, a broker who has retired from the financial world in disgust, but now helps two newbies to join in this same retributive adventure.Ĭarell himself gives a dull, one-note performance: permanently pissed off, permanently outraged by the rottenness of everything he discovers about the subprime racket, but in a strange, impotent, not-funny way. Ryan Gosling is Jared Vennett, a tough-talking blowhard who gets wind of the deal, grasps the thinking behind it and persuades an investment team to get in on this opportunity – led by Mark Baum, played by Steve Carell, an angry, overheated guy, traumatised by a family tragedy he won’t discuss, and driven by a need to punish the financial world’s iniquities. He sees that subprimes are about to blow and persuades his boss to gamble the firm’s entire capital on financial instruments that will pay off when the market collapses. There’s a similar tonal problem here.Ĭhristian Bale gives a good performance as Michael Burry, a shy and difficult man employed as a fund manager. “They’re not confessing – they’re bragging!” comes the reply. At one stage, investment brokers cheerfully explain their subprime scam and someone asks how it is they can confess so easily. There is neither the gleeful energy of Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street nor the plain informative clarity of Charles Ferguson’s documentary Inside Job. The Big Short is fatally unsure about whether it is a righteous condemnation of fraud, or a black comic romp with cool amoral dudes and rebellious outsiders.