Very well executed

Gripping story with well-crafted characters

Good idea lost in the noise

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

The documentary covered the analysis of financial crisis from the perspective of various stakeholders: Investment banks, The Government and Federal Regulatory bodies. It also covered how academia are supporting false publications and hence teaching at top business schools. An eye opening documentary.

Charles Ferguson's Oscar-winning look at what caused the global financial meltdown is enough to chill anyone's bones. Narrated by Matt Damon, "Inside Job" shows how deregulation, the rise of derivatives, and the housing bubble coalesced to bring down the world economy. Sure enough, banks thought to be too big to fail did just that (too big to fail means too big to exist). Meanwhile, the executives spent millions on cocaine, prostitutes, and multiple houses. Worse still, large portions of academia endorsed the money-above-all mindset.Basically, the departments that were supposed to regulate Wall Street allowed it to run amok. As expected, Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernanke, and anyone else behind the crash declined to get interviewed for the documentary. I guess that if the documentary was missing anything, it could have noted that the unfunded wars in Afghanistan and Iraq caused the US national debt to skyrocket. Otherwise it's very well done. When Ferguson accepted his Oscar, he noted that not a single person behind the economic meltdown had faced prosecution. Five years later it's the same.Everyone should see this documentary.

This is a documentary about the 2008 financial collapse. It starts with an examination of the Icelandic banking deregulation in 2000. Then it takes a casual walk through the banking sector from the post WWII. It digs into the people involved in the 2008 meltdown. Then it tries to lay out the aftermath.This is a well researched, coherent and relatively easy to understand. The most damning is laying out the army of people who are tied to the investment industry that are in government. The interconnection and the conflicts of interest are truly eye-opening. It is definitely coming at the meltdown with a view point and sometimes, it tries to connect too much. On a minor note, the Matt Damon is pretty good.

Amazing doc about the financial scum bags that are found in academia, boards of financial institutions, etc. Some of these banks and academic professors at Columbia are absolute criminals!!!! These guys are appalling!!!!Columbia University, Federal Reserve, US government and US banks, they all profited from the financial crisis and faced no punishment. The US financial system is a complete disaster! They really need to start putting some of these guys in jail because that is where they belong, IMHO.Hopefully this doc will get people thinking and start to make some changes in the financial system.