Spent a pleasant Sunday evening at the Riverside in Woodbridge catching a showing of the Jodie Foster directed Money Monster, starring George Clooney and Julia Roberts. We weren’t expecting too much after seeing the less than stellar reviews but it proved to be a more than competent thriller with a nice, sardonic edge to both the script and main character. I guess it’s more than a little bit behind the curve in using corporate greed (and a compliant media) as a subject matter, but frankly I’m always up for an occasional ninety minutes of big business bashing. Possibly a little predictable and, given the story line, we might have expected a little more depth, but it was still entertaining. If you’re a film obsessive, you’ll want more, but if you go and see it with the right level of expectation, it more than does the job.
