The most overtly political Hollywood film in years, Adam McKay’s The Big Short is less interested in explaining the root causes of the 2007-2010 financial crisis than in explaining how pissed off the American people should be at the investors and bankers who caused it. Not to say that it doesn’t brilliantly succeed with the former: using tongue-in-cheek, 4th wall-shattering asides, illustrations, and deliberately dumbed-down explanations, McKay makes damn sure that every single audience member, regardless of intelligence or education, understands just how broken and corrupt both the financial system and its profiteers are. But more than just a polemic, The Big Short embodies a manic energy and style reminiscent of Danny Boyle’s early hyper-kineticism. This is cinema at its angriest and most entrancing.
8/10
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