Worst movie I have ever seen Okay worst 30 mins ever( couldn't bear anymore)

I was completely engaged and thrilled all towards the end. Wanted to have a little more of drama unfold at the end but watched it after so long of its release.Should have watched it earlier.

After providing a promising start it failed to grab the full attention of viewer and has a common ending that can be very predictable even if you are an average movie watcher. Acting is good by both actors but there are a lot of unrealistic scenes which will let you think " you need nothing to be there in a live program and put the whole damn crew of a well known channel into a hostage situation " Definitely a big question mark on George Clooney movie !

(Originally reviewed: 23/02/2017) Jodie Foster's most recent picture is not necessarily a bad one, just a borderline average and uninspired one, that like Elysium, can't sustain a decent story from beginning to end. Now I loved 2011's The Beaver and considered it one of the best films of that year, there she was dealing with the subject of clinical depression, and the film was both sad and very funny, with its dark blend of comedy, but with 'Money Monster she has gone backwards, the story isn't particularly interesting and the second half is a typical string of clichés where's the bad guy and the hostage take a trip outdoors, and I'm sick of this type of film; the picture does not end with a bang but with a shrug of the shoulders, and I expect much better from a talented director like Foster.The story is very ordinary and routine; Clooney play's Lee Gates, a Television host who advertised a trust that could not be trusted, this lost people a lot of money, and one man in particular played by Jack Connell (Kyle Budwell) decides he has to do something about it, so he walks through security and interrupts the show, creating a hostage situation, but in truth only one man is in real danger of being shot, and that's Lee, his Boss played by Julia Robert's talks to him through an ear piece letting him know what's happening outside of the situation and so forth, but Kyle is aware there just staling so the police can get there and defuse the situation, during this Kyle rants about what he wants, or doesn't and not much is actually revealed till the half way point, until his pregnant wife gets brought there to speak to him through a live television feed and pretty much humiliates him on live TV, he gets angry sits down with his back turned and one by one hostages leave the building via the police and that's when it gets absolutely routine. They find out that the man in charge of the company played by Dominic West (Walt Canby) is actually behind his money loss and from then on it's a literally slow pursuit to confronting him about it, and if you have seen a film about hostage negotiations before, you'll know someone gets shot, and the film ends with two people eating takeaway while watching the TV reveal the politician's corruption and that's basically the entire film, and at the end of it all, I wasn't impressed, I felt the whole thing felt largely uninspired, and lacked originality all the way through.There are positives though; the performances are good, George Clooney and Jack O'Connell are especially good, Julia Roberts is decent, Dominic West is pretty good and Lenny Venito is adequate as well, as Lenny the Cameraman, but in truth the performances were all watchable to an extent, with the exception of a bland Caitriona Balfe who play's CEO Diane Lester, a pretty face but not much else. I also thought Foster's direction was solid, the picture wasn't overlong and there is a couple of good individual scenes in the first half or so, which includes a decent sense of humour. However there was too much wrong for it to be a good film, including the uninspired writing, clichés and oh so predictable moments, and some real howlers like the dumbest security I've ever seen in a film, when a guy walks past with two boxes, they sit on their fat arses and simply let him in without asking for ID or for him to sign, which is completely unrealistic, and Clooney's character doing this stupid dance that was rather embarrassing. Overall the picture is merely forgettable, uninspired and can't outrun its predictable clichés and routine feel.