"The Laundromat", for me was a mix between "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" and
Adam McKay's "The Big Short. A preachy film that tells you things you've probably known for a long time. How rich people and their lawyers are manipulating and creating the laws of the society, and how the average guy trying to scrape out a living, is really a schmuck because he is powerless to do anything. While this is not "Fake News", it can definitely be called "Old News".
Thank God there is a first rate cast to try to make sense of it all. Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas are first rate. Both are equal parts charming, easy going and smarmy. While their dialogue did not always make a lot of sense, they were engaging and humorous and, you could tell that they were enjoying every bit of their con man performance.
Meryl Streep, as usual, is excellent as the unintended victim of these two lawyers. She is the one that is left to tell the audience what all of this means in today's terms.
Interesting, but not essential to see.
6 out of 10
Thank God there is a first rate cast to try to make sense of it all. Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas are first rate. Both are equal parts charming, easy going and smarmy. While their dialogue did not always make a lot of sense, they were engaging and humorous and, you could tell that they were enjoying every bit of their con man performance.
Meryl Streep, as usual, is excellent as the unintended victim of these two lawyers. She is the one that is left to tell the audience what all of this means in today's terms.
Interesting, but not essential to see.
6 out of 10