This is How Movies Should Be Made

Highly Overrated But Still Good

At first rather annoying in its heavy emphasis on reenactments, this movie ultimately proves fascinating, simply because the complicated, highly dramatic tale it tells still almost defies belief.

The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful

***SPOILERS*** The movie gets the "Death Wish" treatment when down and out and on the balls of his a** laid off security guard Jim Baxford, Dominic Purcell, goes postal when his entire world fell apart due to the criminality of the Wall Street bankers and stock brokers that he put his trust and life saving into. With both his and fellow investors money used to play the market with the financial institutions. That was supposed to keep it in safe corporate and government bonds putting it into unsecured junk bonds and worthless derivatives and home loans mortgages that went bust in the 2007-09 stock market crash. Now with his wife Rosie's, Erin Karpluk,health insurance not covering her medical expenses and facing a long and painful death she offs-or kills-herself in order to prevent her from any farther suffering.Jim now having nothing to lose, he already lost everything, plans to do in those who screwed him out of his life savings his job his wife and home and is determined to get even by staging a kamikaze style assault on those in Wall Street who destroyed, by him believing in them, everything that he held near and dear to him. Armed to the teeth and wearing a Halloween mask Jim is more then ready to lose his life and take as many crooked brokers and greedy bankers along with him.****SPOILERS****Wild and bloody final with Jim storming the office building that screwed him out of his life savings gunning down dozens of lawyers and brokers that he came in contact with during his non-stop rampage. Even taking time to shoot across and on the streets any person, wearing a suite and tie, he felt had anything to do with the corrupt dealing that destroyed his life and, in the case of his wife Rosie, happiness. The final showdown came in his broker Jeremy Stancroft's, John Heard, of the now bankrupt real estate growth fund's office with the police and swat teams storming the building he gave him a chance to defend himself by leaving his gun on the table thus giving Stancroft a fighting chance to use it! Only for the broker, who at first grabbed it, to find out it was empty and getting gunned down not by Jim but the police thinking that he, not Jim, was responsible for all the carnage in the building and on the street!

I expected this to be a pure action movie of the revenge against the 2008 crisis, which as we know now, has been premeditated by the clever heads at Wall-street and any other bank business centers like London and Luxembourg. I know some old guys who really were at the roots of the system, and who warned me some time before, who told me they were putting their "savings" into security (meaning gold). I also know the other side of the system, when each domino falls, piece by piece, until you have nothing to loose, not even your health. This is the main part of the movie, and it does excellent in it, always at the edge of "too much of bad luck" without falling off.The end may be a bit "lucky", but then it's purpose is purely symbolic. At the end of justice there will always be the citizens.The last words are great : I am out there, a soldier of the people... and if the government, the prosecutors and the judges fail on their duty, I will not fail on mine.

I have only just come across this movie in the past couple of weeks and am flawed.Dominic Purcell is outstanding! Absolutely outstanding!I could not believe my eyes when I saw this movie. I could not help but say out aloud 'Now here is someone who understands what I have been going through!'.I have been dealing with exactly this in real life for years whilst trying to get my movie The Phoenix Objective off the ground.In Nov 2010 I attended the Directing Masterclass Workshop run by Bobby Roth. Just before getting on the Airbus back to Beverly Hills I told Bobby my ideas and concepts where he was instantly sold. He even went so far as to say how he would love to do a movie here in Melbourne.Since then I had lost contact and have been dealing with everything accept the violence that this movie portrays. However, understandable how someone with his background can react when and placed in an uncompromising situation.About a week ago I found out a friend and workmate from a Major Bank I worked, allegedly committed suicide. It is all I can say for now, as the case is ongoing.I am writing a Blog Expose as I type this, which will be up on my linked profile this weekend. Seth J Watts. My autobiography is also being prepared where currently the working title is 'Diary of a security guard. Climbing out of the Vipers Nest'.The script is brilliant, lighting, sound, editing, action and content superb. I have been fighting a cause of the exact same nature for some time now with the corruption in the private security sector.I have even gone so far as to put in Submission 162# to the Federal Productivity Commissioner Mr Peter Harris as well as go out on a limb and give a statement in person and on public record on the 23/09/2015 with Melbourne's Public hearing. I am the last to make statement.I have personally worked for 3 Major Banks mitigating potentially dangerous situations including but not limited to attempted extraction of sensitive information.I have worked security for the Ministers and Secretary's of the Department of Human Services but am now forced back onto the Centrelink system due to Financial Hardship that several of these security companies put me, and so many others in.I cannot praise those who put this movie together enough.Dominic Purcell, you were just brilliant.It would be great to work with you and Bobby.Seth J Watts Sw3productions: The Phoenix Objective.

My, my, my, Uwe Boll, you have come a long way!I remember the times of 'House of the Dead' and 'Alone in the Dark', movies that by all logic, should have been awesome, but instead was awful. Those we actually some of my first meetings with just plain bad movies. That special type of bad. Not many movies I see, falls into this category.'Bailout: The age of greed', or 'Attack on Wall Street' which was the name I saw it under, is not that bad at all! It's pretty much like a normal movie, actually. Some of the dramatic parts are a little iffy, but it might be so, that if I didn't know it was Uwe Boll, I wouldn't really have thought about it. Or maybe I would. Dominic Purcell does a great job. The story is not exactly Pulitzer-prize material, but gets the job done. You feel for this guy. If Uwe Boll keeps getting better, maybe in the future he will make a truly good movie? Time will tell.