Boiler Room | | Cast : | Giovanni Ribisi | | Director : | Ben Younger | | Studio : | New Line Home Entertainment | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby | | Released Date : | February 18, 2000 | | DVD Released Date : | July 11, 2000 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | R (Restricted) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
Customer Reviews
| Rating |  | | Date | August 02, 2005 | | Summary | chalk one up for the Q | Content
 | If you've ever been to New York (especially Queens), if you've ever invested 5 dollars before, or if you just want a movie that goes real hard, this movie's tight |
| Rating | | | Date | June 25, 2005 | | Summary | This movie is about some problems on Wall Street | Content
| This movie is about some of shadier aspects of Wall Street. It also has some interesting Jazz Age elements to it. I would recommend this movie. It shows the downfall and survival of young person. It's a very interesting independent film. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 21, 2005 | | Summary | If you value your time at all then do not watch this film | Content
| I would compare this film to trying really hard to take a dump and only managing a fart - and a quiet fart at that. The film is really not worth the time or effort expended watching it. It did not excite me, make me think, make me happy, make me sad or have any effect on me whatsoever.
The only things that I might remember from this film are:
1. The lead role was played reasonably well, despite the overall worthlessness of the film itself
2. Ben Affleck contributed a self-important, know-it-all, been-there-and-done-that, monologue to yet another film which yet again made me feel that he is a massive loser
3. Vin Diesel managed not to kill anyone. Even though he only had a small role, this is quite commendable on Vin's part, but was not necessarily advantageous to the film overall. By the end of it I not so much wanted as needed him to bust some skulls so that the wash of bland seriousness that was the duration of Boiler Room would be contrasted with some laughable fighting nonsense and thus revealing that the whole film was, in fact, a joke (and it would have been a pretty funny one at that)
4. This last point is probably self evident from the comments above, but the most remarkable thing about this film was that it began, continued and ended without saying anything and without anything significant happening
I may have just completely missed what the point of this film was but all the people I watched it with were also sceptical of whether it had a point. Overall, I think that Boiler Room was not very good. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 25, 2005 | | Summary | Back off Affleck | Content
| I am not sure why Ben Affleck has so many haters. He is not bad at all in a small part of the recruiter-smoothie-I'm-a-Millionaire. His presentation was about right and I know because for 16 years I worked in a number of firms, very aggressive penny stock firms. The most successful salesman, the OM's, or even the owners of the firm were able to produce the exact effect with words. They could sell paint off the wall. The fact that the public was buying only reinforces the idea that greed and naiveté go hand-in-hand.
Now the script painted this firm as an out of control, SEC rule breaking, machine, but in truth, penny stock firms that are around a while actually work well within the rules of trade. If a salesman guaranteed profit, the jerk would be out on the street in a hurry and the firm closed. No, the penny stock operators are way more subtle than that, though the portrayal of macho-salesmen is somewhat correct. Booze, drugs, and prostitutes are part of that scene. The boys spend dough on fancy cars just to impress each other. When they have sex, they have sex in groups with strippers.
I think Ribisi did a great acting job and his daddy trouble rang true. He did it for the old man indirectly.
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| Rating | | | Date | April 07, 2005 | | Summary | An awesome movie | Content
| Boiler room is a very interesting movie about a topic that seems like it is very possibly going on all the time. Giovanni Ribisi is convincing as a genious who keeps making the wrong choices. Other strong performances by Vin Diesel and Nicky Kaat. |
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