hyped garbage

Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

best movie i've ever seen.

As Good As It Gets

This is an intense drama set in 2010 Orlando during the housing crash. Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) is a real estate agent who makes his living on foreclosed properties. Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is an unemployed construction worker who meets Rick Carver under the worse circumstances. He hates Rick Carver as he moves his son (Noah Lomax ) and mom (Laura Dern) out of their family home into a low rent motel filled with displaced families.Through a series of events, Dennis ends up working for Rick Carver, becoming the man he hates, doing a job he hates in economic times that makes a person question integrity. Dennis performs tasks that are outright illegal, jilting Fanny Mae and the taxpayers all in an effort to recover his home.The film is hard hitting as you feel the intensity, for better or worse, of people getting evicted from their homes. The film also questions government polices and bank policies but offers no solutions as the results opens itself up for easy graft.Guide: F-bomb. No sex or nudity.

There are just too many factual errors. The sheriffs in Florida do not have uniforms like the ones shown. A concealed carry permit is issued by the state after application, not like what was shown in the movie. People who were being foreclosed on had a lot of time to live in their homes. Many did it for years after they stopped paying. Only extremely foolish people could have been caught in the predicament shown here. And as for Nash's final come to Jesus moment, it was too late. After shooting at the police, that guy was facing mandatory prison time. He'd lose the house anyway because prison pay won't take care of the mortgage. And after Nash started making money, he'd have been able to move out of the motel. I was not able to suspend reality to the extent needed to really enjoy this film. It was more of a fantasy than a drama. They may as well have included a snow storm in Orlando.

If it was not for the to me disappointing ending I would have give it an eight stars rating. But it deserves at least a seven because the acting of Andrew Garfield and Michael Shannon are really good. The story itself is a drama that many Americans will recognize. Their properties being foreclosed because of to high unpaid credits is the harsh reality a lot of people had to go through. Who's fault is it? It's a bit everybody's fault. The owners because you try to live above your wealth and by buying everything on credit. It's a typical thing from the USA if you ask me. I'm married to an American and every time I go over there I'm amazed by what the people buy on credit all the time. I live in Belgium and I never buy anything on credit. If I can't afford it cash I just don't buy it. The banks because they would give loans to anybody. The real estates, the government, the judges, all have their fault in this crisis. The movie shows the world of greedy people without any morals, the world of one way justice and the whole corrupt system. It's not a joyful movie but it's worth watching. I'm just a bit disappointed by the ending.

I really wanted to like "99 Homes." I didn't hate it, but it is far from perfect. The skinny: Andrew Garfield is a construction worker who loses his home to foreclosure, unable to find work. He has to move with his young son (Noah Lomax) and mother (Laura Dern) into a hotel on skid row, but through a twist of fate find himself working for the man who evicted him (Michael Shannon). As he gets involved deeper in various real estate scams, his sense of morals has to be balanced against his need to provide for his family.Some of the action and the plot is very contrived -- there's no reason for this big time con man (Shannon) to bring in a protégé and give him so much access and place so much trust in him. At one point, he's given a crucial assignment, to deliver a forged document, that Shannon obviously could have just as easily done himself. You can always identify dodgy writing when the story has to be manipulated in order to put the characters in dramatic situations. Another problem in the film is that while Shannon's bad guy is quite nuanced, Laura Dern is forced to play the same wise grandmother role she plays in lots of Disney movies. After being kicked out of her home, you'd think she might not be quite so high and mighty about the chance to get ahead in life. The writers of the film can see more than one shade of evil, but only one shade of good. And that kinda gets at the heart of what's wrong with the film -- it's a film made in 2014, about events that took place in 2010, and yet the film's vision of America matches what Capra put on celluloid in 1946's holiday film "It's a Wonderful Life." According to the film, America is made up of mostly hard working and honest folk who might steal a little water or power from a bank-owned home next door but who would never -- ever -- EVER -- do anything to hurt anybody else in order to get ahead. Whenever the film tries to play at moral ambiguity, it easily betrays it for sentiment. How did we get here, and how do we get out? The film should either present no answers or it should present a better answer than it does. The ending feels like a definite letdown. It's not really earned. Andrew Garfield continues to show himself as one of the best young actors working, and this really should be sort of a star-making role for Michael Shannon as well. The film is well-directed, but the script is too manufactured.