After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

This movie is nothing but left wing garbage. Third world people of color good. Northern Europeans and Americans bad! Yawn. They take you through all of the poorest parts of the third world, and ignore the growing middle class in all of those countries, of course. Anything that does not support the leftist anti-capitalist viewpoint is left out. Badly put together, out of context comments, moralizing, and so on. Blame for problems placed onto the USA or the World Bank when most of the blame belongs to the "victim" countries and their lousy corrupt governments. Waste of time unless you believe in this far left, anti-capitalist cult of guilt.

Frankly, I wasn't too hot about Wagenhofer's previous documentary "We Feed The World", which dealt with the food industry. Now, he's tackling the much harder to "photograph" financial system, and he pins it right down. Wagenhofer documents some egregious examples of the global financial system going haywire, and he nails down the right cases. Those gargantuan, deserted Spanish golf course castles will stay in your mind. So will the sheer, pharaonean poverty of cotton pickers and granite maimers (for a better word) in Burkina Faso.Film is always thick on emotion, thin on information. This documentary offers a few mental stepping stones. Tomorrow I'm going to look up some of the points mentioned in this film. That's about all you can ask from a good documentary.

Let's make money is a very well made documentary which focuses on how money is made and distributed by investors, corporations and the rich elite through the global financial system.I largely agree with the standpoints which are communicated in this movie, however I must admit that it biased towards the "liberal anti- globalisation" camp. It also tends to polarize between the poor, innocent and exploited developing world and the rich and greedy west. All in all this view of the world is probably correct, however reality is more complex and the movie does not mention any specifics in this regard.Nonetheless, very interesting and very enlightening. Definitively worth watching.

Release at a time of world wide financial crisis with banks stumbling around the globe is coincidence, but a good one.Do you know what happens with your money? How banks use it to be able to pay the interest they advertised? To fulfill their investors' expectations? I did, partially, but certainly not the whole story.Do we want to know it all? You can say as well: I like beef steaks, but do I want to get to know the cow and the whole process before it is on my plate? If you are not ignoring things and act like an ostrich, then you should be willing to ask this question.The movie tells you the story through the voices of people on top and on bottom of a globalized market, blended in to a composition of pictures that mostly speak by themselves anyway. This is a movie where the slogan 'Let your money work for you' gets a literal meaning. But is it really working for 'you'?