The only ones saved are the ones who didn't manage to fall or stumble when pushing said boulder down the hill in the first place. In true movie fashion, we observe the financial crash, not from an insider standpoint, where sure-fire, grade-A trades and exchanges are being made, but by a plethora of quirky outsiders trying to run away from a boulder that keeps gaining on them until it flattens them and everyone in their tracks. Thankfully, Adam McKay's The Big Short assumes the audience is fairly stupid and blissfully ignorant when it comes to the interworkings of what led to the global economic crisis of 2007-2008, which saw record unemployment and catastrophic results for the usually reliable housing market. Before you know it, searching the definition of something like a "Roth IRA" leads you to Google searches about embezzlement and quantitative easing in efforts to try and circumvent and define what you were originally looking for. Having said that, some subjects are more alienating than others, and one of those subjects is economics/finance, largely because of its dependency upon a plethora of terminology and jargon that usually cannot be adequately defined without including other terminology or jargon. I enjoyed it a lot.No subject in the world is inherently interesting or uninteresting, for it's always about the communicative method or channel used to promote or inform one about the subject that is either interesting or not. The grand finale is breathtaking, both visually and literally. The battle scenes against the beasts are plentiful, and the scenes are thrilling and draws me in like a magnet. She had a mostly non speaking role in "Kong Skull Island", so I thought it was because of the language barrier. Even the Hong Kong superstar Andy Lau is only having a supporting role in this film! In addition, I was not expecting Jing Tian's English to be as good as that. I am so happy to see Chinese actors and actresses taking positive roles.
The plot is tight, thrilling and well paced. "The Great Wall", on the other hand, pleasantly surprised me because it surpassed my expectations with flying colours. I was really skeptical about "The Great Wall", because the last film I watched that was made for the Chinese market was horrible. Instead, they get into a big adventure with monstrous beasts that nothing could have prepared them for. They enter the Middle Kingdom with the foot of a beast they have killed, hoping to make a bargain with the Chinese for gunpowder. This film tells the story of two Western men who goes to China in search of gunpowder.
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