Recap: Jim Doyle is a mathematician specialized in chaos and fractal theory. He claims that he has developed a program that can predict the fluctuations on the stock market. For Simon O'Reily, a bank executive under pressure to produce more income to the bank that temptation is too much. Boyle is hired and put on a secret project to refine his program. And when the program predicts a major market crash in the near future, O'Reily sees the possibility to earn a fortune. Forget the costs, forget ethics and laws. Profit must be maximized.
Comments: How do you make mathematics sexy? Simple, three steps. You put them in a program, add a lot of graphics and visual aid, and then throw in the promise of ridiculous amounts of money. Then you take this to the evil bank, and hey, you got a thriller.
Well, the movie is not only about math, even if it looks like it in the beginning? The fundament is humans and one of our sins, greed. To profit on the expense of others. But with greed also comes deception and revenge, so you better look out and stay sharp. The Bank is a movie that profits from these three pretty basic concepts, greed, deception and revenge.
It's a movie that starts out simple, but soon something looks amiss, and thereafter very little seems to be what it wants to look like. There are a lot of false façades but for the movies sake, a few too many are a little too transparent. Some twists that should have been surprising are revealed or seen through too early. A lot of suspense and quality are lost this way.
Also there are some bits missing. The main plot, with the mathematics, are never fully explained. It can't be, because to explain that math simply would be taking too long and bore most of the audience out of their minds. But to have such a integral part of the plot unexamined the deception becomes very shallow, and less intriguing. In addition there are a little too many points about how Boyle makes his getaway that are left out. The end is therefore not the suspenseful high point of the movie that it should be.
A decent movie though, but nothing to look for in the store's shelves. Fun to see Wenham in a different role a little before his role as Faramir in LOTR.
5/10
Comments: How do you make mathematics sexy? Simple, three steps. You put them in a program, add a lot of graphics and visual aid, and then throw in the promise of ridiculous amounts of money. Then you take this to the evil bank, and hey, you got a thriller.
Well, the movie is not only about math, even if it looks like it in the beginning? The fundament is humans and one of our sins, greed. To profit on the expense of others. But with greed also comes deception and revenge, so you better look out and stay sharp. The Bank is a movie that profits from these three pretty basic concepts, greed, deception and revenge.
It's a movie that starts out simple, but soon something looks amiss, and thereafter very little seems to be what it wants to look like. There are a lot of false façades but for the movies sake, a few too many are a little too transparent. Some twists that should have been surprising are revealed or seen through too early. A lot of suspense and quality are lost this way.
Also there are some bits missing. The main plot, with the mathematics, are never fully explained. It can't be, because to explain that math simply would be taking too long and bore most of the audience out of their minds. But to have such a integral part of the plot unexamined the deception becomes very shallow, and less intriguing. In addition there are a little too many points about how Boyle makes his getaway that are left out. The end is therefore not the suspenseful high point of the movie that it should be.
A decent movie though, but nothing to look for in the store's shelves. Fun to see Wenham in a different role a little before his role as Faramir in LOTR.
5/10