As a professional telemarketer and owner of a Costa Rican call center, I can say that the image presented in the movie can represent a division 1 outbound telemarketer.Taking away the type of scam they were doing, anyone must admire the high energy, endurance and advanced rhetoric that a professional salesman can produce over the phone. It is a true character representation of a BPO calling floor.It is becoming a lost art. More people spend time texting rather than building rapport with clever and glib vocal presentations. The movie shows the connection between a talker and convincer.Finally, the topic that was not discussed during the movie was an attrition rate that a call center can produce. There are many stressful factors that can cause burn out and a final patience level that can break even the most seasoned telemarketer.Thank you for taking the time to read my review. It was an entertaining movie for the topic.

Had a friend of mine many years ago I worked with,, quit and went to work on Wall St.. I often wonder if he made it... This movie isn't Wall St.. but its so deliciously good.. Giovanni Ribisi is great in this,, Vin Diesel's character Chris is very believable . Nia Long is sexy as ever in this,, and she can act too, that's' a plus. Ben Affleck hit's a homerun in this picture, A bunch of college grads head out into the world , enter the Boiler Room,, slang for Wall St. East on the Island,, Long Island that is ,, exit 53.. it's really a chop shop for laundering one man;s scam to dupe many people.. all men,, don't pitch , the b_itch. I love the scene where all the boys are watching Wall St. on TV and all of our main characters are reciting the scenes word for word,, our main character has quit running his little Casino from his house,, because he was recruited by one of the sharks in the Boiler Room, so he eventually has to make his dad proud , who is a judge and very hard to please... kinda reminds me of my dad,, anyway long story short,, this movie will blow you away,, if Wall ST. is you're perfect 10, this would be a 9.99 , I gave em both 10's,, slight edge to Wall ST. by a slim hair.

***SPOILERS*** These greedy and crooked stock brokers never learn. In the movie made 13 years after the the great 1987 stock market crash with dozens of market bigwigs thrown behind bars for manipulating the market and fleecing investors of billions they, a new generation of crooked stock boys, are back again in action doing their thing. This time in a sleazy chop shop brokerage house 100 miles west of Wall Street in Commack NY called J.T Marlin. Told by the brokerage house's chief as well as senior member the 27 year old Jim Young, Ben Affleck, that anyone who's lucky enough to get a job at J.T Martin will end up being a millionaire,like himself, in just three short years. As it later turned out instead of being a millionaire they'll most likely, if they can't make a deal with the FBI, end up behind bars in a federal penitentiary!It'collage drop out Seth Davis, Glovanni Ribisi, who's drawn to J.T Marlin after his father federal district court judge Marty Davis,Ron Rifkin, frond out that he was running an illegal casino out of his home in Kew Gardens Queens. Told by his dad to get himself an honest job as well as a nice Jewish girl Seth ended up doing the exact opposite in both cases! The job that Seth got at J.T Marlin was as criminal a any business run by the Mafia. As for a nice Jewish girl Seth's girlfriend turns out to be the non-Jewish $80,000.00 a year single mom secretary at the place Abbie Halpet, Nia Long. It's was Abbie who ended up, under pressure by the FBI, ratting her "lover" Seth in order to save her own behind for withholding evidence of stock & bond fraud at the brokerage house! As for Seth himself he gets his honest federal judge dad Marty in the mix by getting him to reluctantly give Seth help in the trouble he got himself into thus implicating himself in his son's crimes! And soon Judge Marty finds himself facing not only disbarment but a stretch behind bars! All this trouble and heartbreak, in Seath's family, could have so easily been avoided if he just stayed with his illegal casino operation which his outraged dad made him give up for better things in life. Like a job at J.T Marlin where almost the entire crew that worked there ended up behind bars. With Seath, who like his girlfriend Abbie, ratting them out in order to save his own neck!***SPOILERS***Like the famous saying by Michael Douglas as sleaze ball Wall Street "Master of the Universe" Gordon Gekko in the movie "Wall Street" that "Greed is Good" Seth Davis and his fellow shyster stock brokers found out it, unrestricted and criminal greed,is just the opposite. Banned for life in the financial world was the best thing that Seth got by ratting out low life stock broker crooks like himself.Seth's dad was lucky to avoid jail time but lost his job as a well respected federal judge by just trying to help his not too bright son from ending up in the slammer ! As for Seth his only redeeming feature was getting one of his abused and cheated clients Harry Reynard, Taylor Nichols, his $50,000.00 in life saving back. It was the very naive and susceptible Reynard that Seth talked into investing in a company that didn't exist and was soon to go kaput. That was about the best thing that Seth did in his short career as an, or so he hoped, up and coming big time Wall Street stock broker.

"There is no question whether or not you'll become a millionaire here. The only question is how many times over."Quite frankly, I expected this to be absolute crap.  I'm not much of a fan any of the cast, I'm not familiar with the director, and the premise sounded like a bad television movie. But Boiler Room turned out to be a fairly entertaining Gen-X spin on flashy, corrupt stockbrokers. The main character Seth (Giovanni Ribisi) is a smart guy, but college isn't really for him. He drops out to run a successful illegal casino from his apartment. But when an old friend offers him an opportunity to work for a lesser known, maverick trading company, Seth jumps at the chance to make a lot of money legitimately, and possibly repair his strained relationship with his father, as a result. But, while Seth's natural talent for selling makes him a rising star at the firm, he slowly finds out that his new employer may not be quite so legitimate, after all.The story is pretty ridiculous, and it's portrayal of stock trading is more entertaining than realistic. But hey, it's a movie, not a documentary. The supposed party-lives of the hotshot young brokers are a little over the top (shooting dice, really?), and the relationship between Seth and Abby (Nia Long) is undercooked and seems to not have much significance within the plot, but his interactions with his stern, disapproving father (Ron Rifkin) are much more resonant.Boiler Room name-checks Glengarry Glen Ross and Wall Street, but it's not quite up to the challenge of being a more recent version of those movies. It is a decent rise-and-fall kind of flick, though, and when it plays fast and loose with its subject matter, it all sort of works.