Boiler Room tells the dramatic story of a young college dropout who runs a successful casino from his home, but is looking for bigger and better things. Giovanni Ribisi plays the main character who joins a major stock brokerage firm, promising great success and rewards to its employees. The problem, the leaders, all seemingly under 35, are so arrogant and conceited that they engage in some of the most immoral and unethical business practices imaginable. When Ribisi sees how a client he handled gets swindled into losing his life savings, he does investigations of his own, and in the end, the FBI raids the company.
Boiler Room does suffer a bit, not for lack of suspense. These things, shockingly could happen, but we do have some very conceited, arrogant punks as main characters who are growing up too fast, vulgar, cruel, and even disrespectful to their own employees without any sense of right and wrong. Credibility is strained, and Seth (Giovanni's character) should have realized that these bastards were up to no good right from his first day at the firm. Many questions are left unanswered as to how people with such a prick attitude got their positions in the first place. I was bothered by the characters of Michael the firm's leader, and his main brokerage trainer Greg. These two do not represent any positive leadership. I would hope that teens and young adults watching this film understand the way that these pricks conducted business was reprehensible.
The main problem with Boiler Room is that there is such a disdain for the heads of the firm, with their deception and brain-washing business practices, that the anger you feel with them picking fights, and basically being a$$holes to most everyone around them, detracts from the suspense of the movie. When Seth tries to make amends by trying to get back the money that his client lost in the end, it's a little too late to care. Additionally, the rap music did not coincide well with the dialog or scenes in which it was used.
However, you will hate overly pushy salespeople and telemarketers after watching this film! The phone dialogs are decent, quick, and sharp. Unfortunately, there is still a cruel edge on the other characters, except Ribisi, which seems to make Boiler Room not quite as good as it could have been.
Boiler Room does suffer a bit, not for lack of suspense. These things, shockingly could happen, but we do have some very conceited, arrogant punks as main characters who are growing up too fast, vulgar, cruel, and even disrespectful to their own employees without any sense of right and wrong. Credibility is strained, and Seth (Giovanni's character) should have realized that these bastards were up to no good right from his first day at the firm. Many questions are left unanswered as to how people with such a prick attitude got their positions in the first place. I was bothered by the characters of Michael the firm's leader, and his main brokerage trainer Greg. These two do not represent any positive leadership. I would hope that teens and young adults watching this film understand the way that these pricks conducted business was reprehensible.
The main problem with Boiler Room is that there is such a disdain for the heads of the firm, with their deception and brain-washing business practices, that the anger you feel with them picking fights, and basically being a$$holes to most everyone around them, detracts from the suspense of the movie. When Seth tries to make amends by trying to get back the money that his client lost in the end, it's a little too late to care. Additionally, the rap music did not coincide well with the dialog or scenes in which it was used.
However, you will hate overly pushy salespeople and telemarketers after watching this film! The phone dialogs are decent, quick, and sharp. Unfortunately, there is still a cruel edge on the other characters, except Ribisi, which seems to make Boiler Room not quite as good as it could have been.