Arbitrage

Douchey bigshot gets into a lot of trouble and feels the walls closing in on him, inch by inch, minute after minute; Other than following his potential downfall with sadistic fascination, Jarecki's first feature didn't provide much cinematic weight for me to chew on. Underwhelming payoff.

Richard Gere was born to play to role of the sleazy, scheming businessman and he really does carry this film. The screenplay is just "ok" and the plot is hit-and-miss with some genuinely tense moments but also quite a few contrived twists. I wouldn't call any aspect of this movie "bad," but none of it lives up to the performances that Gere and Roth give. Their interaction is easily the best part of the movie and elevates an overall unremarkable film into "above average" territory.

Oldschool. And done exactly right. I miss oldschool thrillers.

Gere is awesome in a corporate legal drama that despite being very clichéd is both well made and filled with tension.

good movie

Excellent old-school thriller feels like a throwback to the sleek star vehicles of the 80s (which probably still would have starred Gere even back in the day!) and is all the better for it. Consistently tense (and occasionally very darkly funny), and develops its twisty plot against a plausible modern-day backdrop. Gere's portrait of a self-involved, heartless corporate bastard (highlighted by the chilling interplay with Marling as his daughter) may be the performance of his career, and

ikinci izleyiş- baştan sonra iyi yazılmış, iyi yönetilmiş, iyi oynanmış bir iş. hiçbir şeye yakınlaşmadan, fazla yorum getirmeden, her karakterin motivasyonları ve farklı yönleriyle sunulduğu, işin terimsel yönlerinde boğulmaya girmeyen sağlam bir finansal drama, hatta en iyilerinden biri. tek eksiği doğrudan tema ve janraya ilgisi olmayana sunabildiği sinematik yönünün olmaması, ama aşırı odaklığındığı iyi yaptı diye filme sövemezsin.

Didn't finish because I was tired and everything without Tim Roth was failing to hold my attention. It seemed the kind of film that I could really get into if I wasn't sleepy and had the desire to care about the film, so I'll probably have to watch it again to give it a fair score. That said, I did really enjoy Roth. I would recommend it just for him. I need to watch more things with him in it.

I'd like to think this movie taught me about financial stuff, and how to lie. But it skimmed around the edges.

Robert Miller is an extremely bad person, but we sympathize with him the entire time, which is the kind of trick that I love the movies for. Richard Gere is perfectly cast, leading a good ensemble that includes Susan Sarandon, Brit Marling and the excellent Tim Roth. The generic financial thriller score makes it feel cheap, but the script, look and feel are all strong. Better than 2011's Margin Call.

Tight little thriller with a great cast. Looking forward to seeing more from Jarecki.

This movie wasn't great or terrible it just was out there. I found it hard to feel bad for Richard Gere at all for his situation, I was even more infuriated by how the police were handling themselves in this movie. Then to top it off Susan Sarandon was in this and was just as much of a wicked witch as she always is. The one golden beacon of light for this film was the fact that Tim Roth and Brit Manning were cast in this to even out the movie. Those two were great. This did have some tense parts

This movie just didn't make any sense. 16/100

Surprising how a film about legal business and finances can be so captivating. I think the performances from Richard Gere and Tim Roth hold the film together with Susan Sarandon getting a more muted role and probably deserved a bit more screen time. I think Gere's characters potential implosion is the reason you have to keep watching. He is not a character you will like, using money and people to get what he wants. This is a really well told gritty drama/thriller with Richard Gere back on form!

A very good movie, ruined by an awful ending.

Succinctly displays a message that modern ultra-rich criminals can get away with anything, at the expense of the less-fortunate and those that surround their lives. However, this thriller is barely captivating and could have benefited from more of Tim Roth's side-plot.

It's really on the border of would recommend or not, there's some lesson to be learned from it perhaps and there's enough of a story to it. Makes it worthwhile to watch, but right on that border though and below it for those with different movie tastes. All in all, just watch other movies first, especially those I rate higher.

lots of holes, weak story, good cast that can't revive the patient. skip it.

Decent, but it's been done before...and it didn't really bring a lot of uniqueness or soul.

A man gets trouble from all the women in his life (thus in some sense a non-comedic remake of Gere's DR. T AND THE WOMEN, and also RAMPART). It is clear we are supposed to find each of the women more sympathetic than the man. What is far less clear is why. Gere is pretty good. So too is Stuart "Angel Martin" Margolin, teaming up with Gere once again for the first time since Margolin's bit part in DAYS OF HEAVEN. Roth does a De Niro impersonation with a dash of Gabriel Byrne.

Desperately try not to be bored as a complete ass-douche appears to get away with being a complete as-douche.

Richard Gere is the best I have ever seen him as an absolutely detestable human being who lies and cheats to nearly everyone around him in order to get what he wants. The rest of the movie is good, not great, but it kept me guessing right up to the end. Worth seeing just for Gere's performance.

Solid adult thriller.

Disappointing. It starts out like a fairly decent thriller/drama but at some point not too far in everything goes downhill. After the accident we get a film filled with clichés (particularly the detective), illogical decision making and characters you stop caring about. Had some potential to be decent but ultimately failed to keep me interested.

ger; [arbitrage]; ein hedge fond manager versucht verzweifelt sein unternehmen zu verkaufen, doch persönliche umstände erschweren dies und er benötigt hilfe von seinen freunden.;

I love these movies where dudes in suits go around scheming and being schemed. It helps that on a filmmaking level, there's some real skill involved here.

Gere gives his best -- I do really think he's good --, but Jarecki doesn't have enough skills to elevate this financial-crisis-thriller from its well-informed, tense but ultimately predictable terrain of ideas.

A very decent drama/thriller with great actors. Yes we've seen Richard Gere in similar roles a million times before, but he still delivers a rock solid performance with very strong support from Susan Sarandon, Tim Roth and I particularly took notice of the moving performance by Nate Parke (who I don't recall even though having seen The Great Debaters).

A debut feature that packs enough thrills and intrigue, but it's a little light-headed. Tim Roth is a scene stealer as a cop that will use desperate measures in trying to trap Gere's Gordon Gecko-esque character, which has me detect jealousy.

Liked it but could not stand Tim Roth. It was like he was playing a game to see how many clichéd detective tropes he could fit in to one character.

Solid morality play that feels like a throwback to a top-tier eighties thriller but is in fact a compelling character study. Gere is remarkably good in this, and the support is strong. Jarecki has made an extremely assured debut - the measured pacing is great, the screenplay involving and the ending for once is not a cop-out but rather a quietly devastating illustration of one man's Pyrrhic victory.

Gere is surprisingly good!

"If the film covers well-tread territory (a morally bankrupt player trying to prolong his own influence), it does so with pinpoint control of mood and theme." - Glenn Heath Jr.

A bit too cold for my taste

Entertainment: 3.5/4, Spirituality: 0/3, Sustainability: 1/3

A very decent thriller, something not expected from Richard Gere. The premise of the story isnt something new but the movie is well paced. I would say this movie scores higher than what I would have originally given because of the ending. It doesnt end with the main protagonist ending with a moral conscious.

Despite feeling a little bit "been there done that", this movie sucked me in. The increasing tumult of the character's downward spiraling situation was fun to watch, and Richard Gear was wonderful. And it's always a fun surprise to see Tim Roth show up and put out a stellar performance. There'e nothing new here, but what's here is tense and enjoyable.

I cared so little.

Not terrible, but fairly forgettable. Jarecki cheats a couple times, employing deus ex machina to affect characters in unpredictably contrived ways, so much of the suspense for me was in wondering how Jarecki might try to screw Gere next. Also, Jarecki's heavy-handedness in portraying the moral bankruptcy of the super-rich was not to my taste.

Richard Gere is one of my favorite actors. Since about 2010 he's had some pretty incredible roles that exude charisma, by far the best ones of his career. Getting blacklisted from Hollywood has been the best thing to have happened to his craft. He's finally able to utilize his talent in a way where he was previously restricted. This isn't an amazing or novel film. Acting aside, it's simply pretty good. However, the cast itself makes it a great film worth watching.

1063: i don't like it!

Great direction and great beginning, but just runs out of ideas and places to go. "The rich get away with stuff" is just not enough of a premise to hang a whole film on. Could have been so much more.

kind of annoying characters. or at least uninteresting. except for that black guy.

Arbitrage is way more exciting a film than I'd anticipated... the kind of movie where it's OK if it jumps gears to focus on another plot strand because, somehow, that one's even more involving. Richard Gere's performance is superb, his role as the high-flyer fighting in the face of bad karma surprisingly nuanced and layered with more shades of grey than I'd anticipated. Direction and editing are suitably claustrophobic; the script is taut, sharp, convincing, & marvellously plotted. full rvw@lbxd

Surprised to see so many people gave this a pass. I found Arbitrage's meditations on power dynamics and control to be intelligent and apt, and Roth's performance is wonderful. Great to see Eigeman in a feature again.

Richard Gere plays well as the anti-hero/villainous protagonist Robert Miller. Miller holds true to a set of principles (based around money and maximization), no matter who gets hurt. And that's where the story takes off as Miller starts involving more people in his lies he has to create new ones to cover. With its great screenplay and well-paced plot by first time writer-director Jarecki, Arbitrage maintains a high level of suspense through its character interactions.

*Okay...

The epitome of mediocre. Gere playing who he was born to play