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First off, they're really downplaying the expected box for the weekend to like $10-12 mil., but the theater I saw it is was packed. They could be playing us with that.

The movie is actually very good, keeping an excellent pace, fine performances (Caitriona Balfe is exceptional as the CCO), several bits of genuine humor and an interesting story (with a couple of contrivances at the end--the crowd/police issue being pretty bad). I even have to complement Jodie Foster. So I'm sitting there thinking I'm gonna have to eat crow on this one when it hits me, where's the government? Where's the SEC? Almost to the minute, on cue, Julia Robert's character sends a gofer to the SEC, on foot so they're not involved until the end and they're never on screen. That's a gaping $800 million dollar plot hole. They would either have had the "glitch" discovered inside of 30 minutes, or it would have had to be complicit along with the big bad capitalist.

So between that, the ending, the unstated assumption that capitalism is inherently evil (and the unremarkable music), I'm knocking this down from an 8 to a 6/10.