An excellent thriller-drama that manages to really get you sucked into the crime scene of Wall Street without overloading you in incomprehensible details, but still giving you enough to understand what's going on. A brilliant cast does the rest and makes this as good as a thriller can be.

They are sooo afraid of making 1 Million $ in a single day. Yeah, you heard me.

Its amazing what can happen when great actors are working off of a great script. Not to mention a director who adds style to the film without being overbearing.

A great, slick Wall Street movie supported by a brilliant cast. Spock shone.

Intensely soft spoken and realistic tale of personal struggles between the forces of greed, survival, loyalty and betrayal. Each of the protagonists are given equal time in a script that doesn't follow the Hollywood play book of good guys, bad guys and redemptive vengeance. Only money wins.

Intriguing in its broad ideas but lackluster in its minutia. I understood the general ideas and moral quandaries the film posed, but what about the details? What EXACTLY was going on? What does this company even DO? I understand that in the grand scheme all of that doesn't really matter, but it leaves the film feeling too opaque. Nevertheless, I was entertained. Spacey and Irons give Oscar-worthy performances and the whole thing is quite well made. I just needed the movie to meet me halfway.

Margin Call is both a disaster film more terrifying than 2012 and a human drama on par with Up in the Air where a Lehman-esque firm sits already on the brink of ruin, with a constant ebb of fresh layoff leaving the building and a sudden discovery of a cataclysmic inevitability that will test your faith in humanity. Probably the best film that we'll see on the 2008 market collapse, thanks in no small part to the human focus and leaving all of the political finger pointing to documentarians.

Margin Call isn't go to blow your mind, and obviously if you want to be educated about the crash you should go watch a documentary, but I thought the ensemble cast worked well together and overall it was a tightly wrapped film.

Decent story and acting, but the director isn't quite up to the task.

Remember that really eventful and well written scene? Neither do I.

Weird, I almost empathized with a Kevin Spacey character for the very first time. Irons was unbelievably good in this, although in general it was hard to shed too many tears for any of the characters here, with the exception of the compelling Tucci. Also, Demi Moore does a fine job as well.

The movie could have been significantly better than what it turned out to be. The part of the movie which could have been nail biting was just portrayed as insignificant. The movie over all turns out to be a below par considering the actors it has.

A documentary like Inside Job does a much better job at (1) educating you about the causes of the 2008 financial collapse, and (2) keeping you emotionally invested in the story. This dramatization fails at both of these points by only focusing on the major players of a single financial firm, whom are all reprehensible because their decisions in the film are all driven by money. The film is dangerous because by not providing the full context, some will think Irons' character is an ideal CEO.

if you manage to get your eyes off of Zachary Quinto's out of this world, ridiculous eyebrows its a pretty solid movie with great acting from Kevin Spacey and specially Jeremy İrons...however lacks the full dramatic structure the topic deserves

"Margin Call" brims with a competent script that offers a singular look into the players and machinations behind last decade's most contentious financial event but I wasn't fully enraptured by the calm before the storm tone which underlies the film. The whole thing could've used some tighter direction, some parts move at a snail's pace only to reach some speed soon after. The performances on the other hand are uniformly excellent with Spacey (surprisingly) in a standout role. Worth a watch.

Maybe it's just Kevin Spacey, but I felt like this was trying to be some kind of Glengarry Glen Ross/Wall Street hybrid. There's a lot of speechifying going on here. But it's not Mamet. Some of the dialogue is clunky as hell, but the subject matter is what carries the film. The information presented in this film is relevant and important. I would seriously recommend seeing this at least once.

Downbeat, well-acted but curiously flat depiction of the start of the 2008 meltdown. And the industry gets off way too lightly: according to this telling, the only bad guys in the 3rd Reich were Hitler, Goebbels and Goering. Watch "Inside Job" for the real deal; better still, Marc Isaacs' "Men of the City".

I wish they hadn't needed to have so many characters ask to be explained the mortgage crisis as if they were stupid, because it made me feel like the filmmakers assumed that's how the audience felt.

The story isn't really that interesting. Nothing much happens and there's never any excitement. Good actors makes it watchable I guess but not a movie I will watch again!

Far better than I was suspecting. It has a really impressive cast, with Spacey and Jeremy Irons clearly the highlights, and an impressive script as well than manages to do the unthinkable: humanize people that were instrumental in a global economic downfall. I didn't think it would be possible and now that I remember how many homes were lost and how much tax payer money was wasted helping banks recover from horrendous practices the sympathy once again gives way to rage.

Topicality doesn't save a film from awful lighting, self-aggrandizement, and overblown acting. Horrible film.

Excellent generic Wall Street drama. No real connection to the mortgage crisis. In fact they don't really go into any of the nuts and bolts, just that the firm overextended itself, thus the title.

The writing is so bad that it undermines the whole film. Spacey does a decent job, but the rest of the characters are basically oversimplified lazily-acted caricatures which are not remotely believable. Apparently the 'heroes' of the dealing room are engineers and the 'villains' are the non-engineers? What a joke, who writes this shit? The climax of the film doesn't even attempt to show the crucial day of trading; all we get is a short, weak voice-over instead. Go re-watch Wall Street instead.

I'm not trying to be mean here, but Demi Moore's face and her awful plastic surgery were a distraction. Cruel of me to criticize her appearance, I know, but she was pretty badly miscast. That aside, I actually liked this movie. Not a whole lot is asked of the actors, and the visual style isn't very strong, but the script is compelling. I was on board.

Started out okay and had some smart dialogue actually, but got really crappy. Self-indulgent people talking about themselves, pretending like the weight of the world is on their shoulders and they have to go to Mordor to throw the ring into...you get it, right? Anyway, annoying.

I found this movie fascinating, but yearned for the depth and accuracy of a documentary. I think the decisions themselves are as interesting as the emotional reactions they prompt, but here they are hidden behind banal metaphors. I did appreciate the general lack of moral revulsion, what little the film had felt contrived, if they really cared they would not have done it.

Very good.

Money or moral? Intelligent film. Quite heavy on economic terms, but I liked the actor play. No real preaching, but still made me wanna stay down-to-earth for the years to come.