Review – Boiler Room

Here once again is the faux macho world of stock swindlers. This time around it’s a “boiler room” full of cold-calling eager beavers selling worthless shares as part of a scheme that’s a little too complicated to even try to summarize in a quick review (not that I understood it super well to begin with). The hero is the usual earnest young man trying to make it big so he can impress his tough-love father. The big problem here isn’t the story itself, which wasn’t the worst thing I’ve ever seen. The problem is that it gives us little beyond genre clichés, recycled characters and plots from more entertaining movies. On the positive side, however, is that one of the swindle victims actually has a name and a face, so it seems less like a victimless crime. Mildly amusing