I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Lack of good storyline.

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

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

This is an entertaining movie in many ways filled with memorable scenes making it a watch it again movie. Good acting and quite a few supporting characters make us believe the story no problem. The movie stirs up your greed and fear genes as well as your emotions as you watch and are let in on con games that are well rehearsed and for the ones that pull it off very lucrative too. However, the movie makes this point; "it is not what a man has but how he came to have it" and that haunts the viewer for it truthfulness. If we can help someone do so and if not at least do no harm is a good take away to leave with for this movie. Enjoy Vin Diesel as he makes his acting known and look forward to the inside moves of the stock market and how those that do not know anything are prey for this predator assuming that something is amiss or fishy. Blue chip stocks don't do much as this movie states but who doesn't want to make money? We see that with Google, Snapchat, Microsoft and all the rest of those start-ups. The idea is to have your stock and eat it too and that takes knowing what you are doing to some degree not to mention being able to afford to lose. Yes, there is a downside to everything and before you risk, know that downside! Good movie for a sandwich and tasty drink with a favorite snack. Be prepared for lots of foul language which turned me off and while it sometimes conveys the reality of a situation you can also over do it too. That is he case here. Another good lesson you will find here that when the police get involved it is game-over to be sure. BTW...if you get the urge to want to buy stock, play some monopoly you know the fun board game to get it out of your system win or lose. Enjoy

It is very refreshing seeing Ribisi finally playing a good guy. He delivers an outstanding performance and has a great chemistry with Vin Diesel. A movie similar to the movie classic "Wall Street" and yet different. We once again get taken into the world of stocks and brokers and it is done in such a lovely way that it is just a joy to watch. "Boiler Room" is another movie that shows the audience how dangerous the stock market can be for both, broker and customer. This movie, unlike other movie with a similar theme, also focus on the effect of the sales and stocks on the customers not only the brokers. It shows us how destructive just a single sale can be and how easily a simple hard working citizen can loose everything, including their family. In conclusion we can say that "Boiler Room" doesn't quiet hold up as good as "Wall Street" but it most certainly is a close second.

The story is really a standard take on the negative side of the stockbroker's world. The movie has all the distinct ingredients like the ones they have in the movie Wall Street, the one this movie referred by having the cast watch it. They both has the stockbroker characters of course, the scams, the sweet talks, brushes with the law enforcement, and the eventual busting of the bubble. Somehow I think that this will even make its own movie sub genre. Yet I feel that this movie lacks strength due to it uses a weird selection for its cast, thus making the acting overall feels a little bit weird. Giovanni Ribisi, while experienced, doesn't really have the face and the character depth to do this role. Putting the more physical Vin Diesel as a successful stockbroker just doesn't cut it. Ben Affleck did a good job on his role here, particularly with all those lengthy spirited dialog lines. It's too bad that his character's appearance feels very much random.

"There is no question whether or not you'll become a millionaire here. The only question is how many times over."Quite frankly, I expected this to be absolute crap.  I'm not much of a fan any of the cast, I'm not familiar with the director, and the premise sounded like a bad television movie. But Boiler Room turned out to be a fairly entertaining Gen-X spin on flashy, corrupt stockbrokers. The main character Seth (Giovanni Ribisi) is a smart guy, but college isn't really for him. He drops out to run a successful illegal casino from his apartment. But when an old friend offers him an opportunity to work for a lesser known, maverick trading company, Seth jumps at the chance to make a lot of money legitimately, and possibly repair his strained relationship with his father, as a result. But, while Seth's natural talent for selling makes him a rising star at the firm, he slowly finds out that his new employer may not be quite so legitimate, after all.The story is pretty ridiculous, and it's portrayal of stock trading is more entertaining than realistic. But hey, it's a movie, not a documentary. The supposed party-lives of the hotshot young brokers are a little over the top (shooting dice, really?), and the relationship between Seth and Abby (Nia Long) is undercooked and seems to not have much significance within the plot, but his interactions with his stern, disapproving father (Ron Rifkin) are much more resonant.Boiler Room name-checks Glengarry Glen Ross and Wall Street, but it's not quite up to the challenge of being a more recent version of those movies. It is a decent rise-and-fall kind of flick, though, and when it plays fast and loose with its subject matter, it all sort of works.