Synopsis
The head of a giant European investment bank desperately clings to power when an American hedge fund company tries to buy them out.
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Cast
- Gad ElmalehMarc Tourneuil
- Natacha RégnierDiane Tourneuil
- Gabriel ByrneDittmar Rigule
- Bernard Le CoqAntoine de Suze
- Liya KebedeNassim
- Céline SalletteMaud Baron
- Hippolyte GirardotRaphaël Sieg
- Paul BarrettMalburry
- Éric NaggarTheo Craillon
- Yann SundbergBoris Breton
Recommendations
- 80
Variety
Costa-Gavras develops such a propulsively suspenseful pace — with no small assist from Armand Amar’s mood-enhancing Euro-tech score — that his drama comes across as the cinematic equivalent of an engrossing page-turner you might purchase off the rack at an airport newsstand. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Clearly, Costa-Gavras has lost none of his kinetic pacing or his cerebral way with thrills. Unfortunately, the script later gets corrupted itself by a sexual melodrama that lacks both sense and sultriness. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
A film that lingers in the memory in spite of being rather irritating to watch. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
A mildly entertaining sermon about American “Cowboy Capitalism” as it rubs up against “The French Way.” - 63
Slant Magazine
Costa-Gavras's new film is more a funhouse-mirror panegyric (albeit on an exhausted topic) than the staid thriller promised by its press materials. - 60
The Dissolve
While the film is persuasive and detailed in its depiction of financial corruption, it’s also essentially a two-hour lecture, dry and academic. - 60
Salon
Uneven as Capital is, unlike so many films about capitalism it’s never boring and is unafraid of its point of view. - 42
The A.V. Club
The imagery is cliché, and therefore ineffective; the characters don’t seem to operate in the world of finance, but in the world of financial thrillers.
