Borgarkeri
A bit overrated, but still an amazing film
Huievest
Instead, you get a movie that's enjoyable enough, but leaves you feeling like it could have been much, much more.
Murphy Howard
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
Guillelmina
The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.
OneEightNine Media
This is a great film. It not only has well directed action and an excellent story; but it does more to explain why one out of four Americans do not have 400 dollars to spare in case of an emergency than any film I have seen in recent years. Seriously. Even better than The Big Short. I kid you not.I wish this came out in theaters. The film is about a middle-class man and his wife who slowly lose all their income thanks to cancer and greedy Wall Street fat cats. The perfection about this film is how it builds and builds. You see the couple trying to cope while you learn more and more about the one-sided U.S. banking system. Another thing I like about this film is how it teaches us that lawyers work side-by-side and even encourage this corrupt system. If you've ever watch a film that has anything to do with law in it, you may have noticed that for every "bad guy" lawyer there is always a "good guy" lawyer. This is literally the only film I have ever seen that shows what your average bloodsucking lawyer does to the working man. Such a brilliant and powerful scene. Now let us talk about the action. This is far from a mindless action film. The gunplay builds into the film during the second half but isn't overwhelming or cheesy. As good as the action may be, you'll remember this film for the whole film and not just the action. This is a must watch.
Seth Watts
I have only just come across this movie in the past couple of weeks and am flawed.Dominic Purcell is outstanding! Absolutely outstanding!I could not believe my eyes when I saw this movie. I could not help but say out aloud 'Now here is someone who understands what I have been going through!'.I have been dealing with exactly this in real life for years whilst trying to get my movie The Phoenix Objective off the ground.In Nov 2010 I attended the Directing Masterclass Workshop run by Bobby Roth. Just before getting on the Airbus back to Beverly Hills I told Bobby my ideas and concepts where he was instantly sold. He even went so far as to say how he would love to do a movie here in Melbourne.Since then I had lost contact and have been dealing with everything accept the violence that this movie portrays. However, understandable how someone with his background can react when and placed in an uncompromising situation.About a week ago I found out a friend and workmate from a Major Bank I worked, allegedly committed suicide. It is all I can say for now, as the case is ongoing.I am writing a Blog Expose as I type this, which will be up on my linked profile this weekend. Seth J Watts. My autobiography is also being prepared where currently the working title is 'Diary of a security guard. Climbing out of the Vipers Nest'.The script is brilliant, lighting, sound, editing, action and content superb. I have been fighting a cause of the exact same nature for some time now with the corruption in the private security sector.I have even gone so far as to put in Submission 162# to the Federal Productivity Commissioner Mr Peter Harris as well as go out on a limb and give a statement in person and on public record on the 23/09/2015 with Melbourne's Public hearing. I am the last to make statement.I have personally worked for 3 Major Banks mitigating potentially dangerous situations including but not limited to attempted extraction of sensitive information.I have worked security for the Ministers and Secretary's of the Department of Human Services but am now forced back onto the Centrelink system due to Financial Hardship that several of these security companies put me, and so many others in.I cannot praise those who put this movie together enough.Dominic Purcell, you were just brilliant.It would be great to work with you and Bobby.Seth J Watts Sw3productions: The Phoenix Objective.
Michael Thompson
This movie was not entertainment, or brilliant, it was depressing. America is the crux of free market capitalism on this planet. I use the word crux instead of heart, because the free market system has no heart, its dog eat dog. People knowingly gamble their lives on the toss of a dice known as "the market".The same people even vote for the system, and when they lose they don't like it.I hated this film for that reason. If we deal with fire we have to expect to get burned.Yet we don't, we expect to win and win again.The main character in this movie loses everything, including his wife, she commits suicide because she doesn't want to be a burden to her husband, he then goes on a rampage killing those involved in his bank, with a machine gun....Her husband invested their life savings in stocks and shares and lost. The free market runs America, mature people cant expect to win all the time.
xsophietaylorx
I only watched this film because of Dominic Purcell. I really liked him In Prison Break, that made me want to watch Assault on Wall Street because I knew he was a main character. Assault on Wall Street is an average film. Like many other films I felt the 'emotional' scene were his wife dies fell flat firstly I didn't even click on she was dead until the body bag come down the stairs then I caught on and understood she had passed the funeral just seemed to lack any form of emotion at all Dominic's performance was good at the funeral but everyone else seemed not phased at all which is not how funerals are. That part was depressing because I wanted it to be a happy ending for them two but it wasn't. The ending of the film is sort of memorable and sort of on a there could be an Assault on Wall Street 2 cliffhanger sort off, he says he will always be out there for as long as he lives killing I think prompting there will be more attacks maybe another film? Anyway it's an OK film really and is worth the watch.