To really understand what US free economy is capable of! Like a punch in the stomach especially for Europeans! We mostly have a false (PINK) image of American society! I Think Europeans ( I as for one) are lucky to be born on this side of the Ocean! Unluckily (commercial) distribution was strict to show it in European Theatres. Thanks to TV, on demand or DVD people SHOULD watch it at any cost! Direction and actors were FANTASTIC!!! A "pleasant" punch in the belly to confront ourselves with Modern Society!

So guy gets evicted. I'm ALREADY against the guy because a) he couldn't pay off his mortgage, meaning myself has to pay for this guy via my tax dollars and b) he has a kid, which in his financial means he has ZERO business doing.So he lives with his Mom and kid. Whatever. They get evicted, Andrew Garfield's character ends up working for the guy, who is not so straight as he seems. I personally love this. America was founded on a cut throat mentality. Sure this is illegal and not as straight as 'The Founder' but whatever.So the whole thing ends with him selling his old house (that they got evicted from) and buying a new one with a pool, BBall court, and a giant huge area. His Mom starts freaking out about how she wants the original house and the KID SIDES WITH THE F'ING MOM!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? Look I and many friends got moved out of our house when we were 8. If I got a stupid pool, BBALL court, and GIANT house overlooking a lake I'd tell my grandmother to F off, and my grandmothers (both of them) weren't stupid enough to whine and B about some stupid trivial house that some dead guy built.Whole film started out interesting, but I literally closed the movie the last 10 minutes and felt I'd been raped. What a pathetic film. 6/10 for the start... -2 out of 10 for the ending, giving this a 2. Save your time.

99 Homes (2014)Central Florida as a hotspot for real estate scams, of course! With house prices soaring and then diving, there are those scum who profit from other people's loss, taking advantage of both their vulnerability and the government's loopholes.Michael Shannon as Rick Carver is wonderfully cast. A more intense "bad guy" would have been a caricature, and someone less bad would have left the movie flat. Shannon plays it down the middle, quick and no nonsense. It's business to him, after all, with only a slight bending of the rules that turns into not so slight paybacks.Andrew Garfield is a reasonable second man, and actually the main character. He gets swept into the scheme because, at first, he is the victim of one and needs to keep his family afloat. It's all too believable. The writing is stiff sometimes, and there are some small turns in the plot that are either confusing to the uninitiated or are just a bit off what you might think is likely. So hold your breath and keep going. The end is not a surprise (sadly), since the foreshadowing is obvious, but it still makes it round up with a bang. Mostly it's enjoyable for putting you there. And feeling the anxiety.

The Global Financial Crisis inspired several chaos of capitalism movies each with a different spin on the same story. For example, Money Monster (2016) is a hostage thriller, The Big Short (2016) a comedy drama, and Inside Job (2010) a documentary. All try to make sense of financial fiasco but a standout amongst them is 99 Homes (2015). It is a tense hyper-realistic drama that literally barges inside the safe space of people's homes, tosses them into streets, and points the finger at the moguls of real estate.The opening scene graphically portrays the brutality of poverty when a mortgage defaulters' blood-splattered body is quickly removed and the family thrown out so that a soul-less real estate agent can claim the property. The agent Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) is accompanied by local police for evictions and repossessions and they call him "Boss". Unemployed builder Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is next to go and when he seeks a stay of eviction the local court sides with Carver. Nash shows guts and Carver offers him work in his thriving repossessions business that buys defaulted homes at rock-bottom prices. It turns out that Nash is good at it and there are several dramatic evictions in which angry mortgage defaulters are given a few minutes to grab their personal belongings before Carver's men legally empty the homes and force traumatised families onto what was their own footpath. Nash starts making real money from doing Carver's dirty work which includes fraud, theft, and the forging of documents to secure eviction orders. This is the ugly side of capitalism and Nash sinks deeper and deeper into a world of human misery. The stakes are raised when Carver is offered a multimillion dollar real estate deal that forces Nash to choose between the devil's wealth or moral redemption.This is a modern take on the Faustian dilemma of an ordinary man selling his soul, not for greed or greatness but to support his mother and kid. The acting performances are strong and the filming powerful, especially the close up hand-held camera scenes of evictions full of screaming palpable anger against real estate vultures. At almost two hours, it could have benefited from more time in the editing suite but overall the pace and tension are tight. It is an unsettling film but one that stays on message about the greed that preys on homes.