good back-story, and good acting

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

It is encouraging that the film ends so strongly.Otherwise, it wouldn't have been a particularly memorable film

I don't have youth on my side, as regards Nick Leeson's quote that headlines this small review, but I was hungry for a good film and I didn't have a clue about what it would be like!Rogue Trader is the story of how wide boy Nick Leeson brought about the downfall of Barings Merchant Bank, one of the most financially historical institutions in London. A fictionalised adaptation from Leeson's own autobiography, the potential for a potent insight into insider trading et al is wasted. Instead we get a film of baffling trader chatter, newspaper like direction from James Dearden, and performances outside of Ewan McGregor as Leeson, that are distinctly unbelievable.Those who work in the industry this involves are sure to find some rewards, but to the outsiders peeking in to hopefully learn whist being entertained, it's a damp financial squib. 5/10

"Dies Bildnis ist bezauberd schön"this was my title!The movie is constrained and limited to one side of the story. I do not think the movie was entirely successful, but the theme was pretty clear. Do we really know what we really want? Nick Leeson saw a picture and he tried for it. Of course in the movie, pretty much every one else was doing the same thing. I am sorry, your guidelines are bullshit. I quoted the title of a sound track item. I am no more to say. Post this as I have written, without the comment to you. IMDb policy sucks, IMDb policy sucks, IMDb policy sucks.

The story of Nick Leeson's contribution to the collapse of Barings Bank is a definite cash-in on the whole sorry story, and I have a bit of a problem with that. OK, so Leeson, he says, made no money from his gambling on the Singapore stock market - but he certainly made money from his autobiography and this film of it. That leaves a nasty taste, somehow.Euan McGregor is fine as Leeson - he doesn't make the character likable and manages to put across some of his motivation for rising in his organisation and then biting the hand that feeds. The story is presented in such a way that you're supposed to feel sorry for Leeson - but you don't. Maybe that is a failure of the film, but he is so arrogant you can't feel anything but a smile when fate finally catches up with him.Well-shot as the film is, it is as empty as the soulless job of working the trading floor. It puts across the coldness of the stock market, where money becomes just another set of noughts, not really real, very convincingly, but is this really enough to make it a good film?

Unlike compelling stories of high finance and crime in films like the Thomas Crown Affair and Rollover, Rogue Trader purports to be the true story of Nick Leeson, a stock trader whose speculation brought down Barings, England's oldest bank. McGregor portrays Leeson as a charmer white collar criminal who ended up sentenced to six years in a Chinese prison for insider trading and fraud. Diagnosed with cancer, Leeson wrote his memoirs and low and behold it became a film.Always a solid performer, Ewan McGregor plays the self-absorbed, arrogant Leeson with his usual competence and energy. Anna Friel is his in the dark wife who yearns to be pregnant but can't interest her husband away from the trading floor. This is story of greed, larceny, and speculation on a grand scale. The film was never released in theaters but went straight to Showtime and has now been released for home sale. Skip it and rent it. Good acting, good story, but not a very compelling item for collectors of McGregor's work.