The president of a major tobacco company decides to buy the company himself, but a bidding war ensues as other companies make their own offers. Nick starts to make losses and again attempts to trade out of them but this time he comes unstuck as his illegal trading generates even bigger losses.
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One could argue that the film is intending to paint our protagonists as obnoxious, to reinforce the hollow basis of their lifestyle and the unenviable behaviour it produces.
Dearden's direction is workmanlike, but his editing is frequently slapdash.
Now out of prison but still disgraced by his peers, Gordon Gekko works his future son-in-law, an idealistic stock broker, when he sees an opportunity to take down a Wall Street enemy and rebuild his empire. |
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His first year of trading is a big success and he makes large profits for the bank even though he has illegally broken trading rules and secretly covered up losses. From this point on there is a natural source of tension from the combination of the money involved and the time constraints, i.e.
Biodrama that gives the inside look at how a good man can go bad....really bad. | Rating: 2/5 |
Rogue Trader is a terrible waste of the talents of Ewan McGregor.
| The film may be more ambiguous about his personal financial decisions, and his choosing to lie to cover his tracks, but it is never brave enough to suggest any kind of link between Leeson's personality and the consequences of his actions. The film ends up relying on Hartley's score to tell us when things are turning bad, and while that may be fine in a melodrama it doesn't work wonders here.
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It's a welcome and reasonable explanation, but as the film barrels forward these layman's-term scenes are too few and far between. Drama, October 28, 2006 A rogue trader is an employee authorized to make trades on behalf of their employer …
March 11, 2015 The writer-director James Dearden had previously written the screenplay for Fatal Attraction, which captured another aspect of the 1980s zeitgeist, namely the AIDS epidemic. This is all slightly undercut by the airport scene, where Leeson imagines the photographers are his trading floor staff, and starts bidding in front of the press. When his employers, Barings Bank, offer him the opportunity to go to Jakarta, Indonesia to sort out a problem that nobody else wants, he seizes the opportunity with both hands.
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Rogue Trader is a sadly pedestrian telling of Nick Leeson's tragic tale.
the bonuses and annual audit. His story is indicative of two big trends in 1980s and 1990s commerce: new blood flowing into the City of London from outside of traditional circles, and intense levels of greed and materialism after Big Bang, which were (temporarily) curbed by the stock market crash of 1987. His team wear horrible, tacky jackets on the trading floor, communicating with outlandish gestures, while his bosses are all stiff-upper-lipped, haughty, public school types.
But in general this kind of absurd interlude is the exception rather than the rule.
Just leave us a message Please reference “Error Code 2121” when contacting customer service.You're almost there! We won’t be able to verify your ticket today, but it’s great to know for the future.Regal Any film dealing with a largely technical business such as the derivatives industry is going to be caught between a rock and a hard place before it even gets going; on the one hand, if the film-makers spend too much time explaining the complexities of the market, they will bore those in the know and probably send everyone else to sleep too, whereas if they don't indicate what's going on then they risk limiting their audience to only those with direct experience of trading.
This works up to a point, but because the film is based on Leeson's memoirs, it has a sympathetic vie, if not of the system as a whole, then of his personality within it.
March 11, 2015 Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Patchy but worthy.