- Studio: Random Art Workshop
- Release Date: Aug 10, 2012
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- Summary: A maverick New York hedge fund trader with uncanny analytic abilities moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control. (Random Art Workshop)
- Director: Simon Yin
- Genre(s): Thriller
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42With its minimal settings and focus on the abstract lingo of market transactions, "Margin Call" stands as the new model for how to do Wall Street on a budget, embedding its moral themes in language and complex characters. By comparison, $upercapitalist seems naïve about both the market and the humans who operate in it.
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30Dry as new bank notes and doggedly uncinematic, Simon Yin's $upercapitalist approaches the seamy side of international finance with a story as stale as the subprime meltdown.
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30The dull, hectoring financial melodrama Supercapitalist has all the spark of a high school assembly skit about not letting friends drive drunk.
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25A Walmart "Wall Street," the hedge-fund drama Supercapitalist is junk merchandise stamped "made in China."