Actors: Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon
Director: Nicholas Jarecki
Arbitrage is a plot film - we're forced down a path towards our characters having to make moral choices. Trouble is, while the plot is excellent, the character development is weak - all of our characters are out of the Cliche School Of Stereotypes. While the film plays out excellently, it doesn't feel like a lived-in film. Richard Gere is surprisingly good here, though - I've only seen a few movies of his, and while his character doesn't feel real, to some degree he's not supposed to.
I may be holding it against this film that I saw it after Blue Jasmine and that both movies feature the ultra-wealthy. Indeed, it is better than a film called 'Arbitrage' has any right to be called (and the film does not feature the concept of arbitrage at all).
Also nice to see Chris Eigeman getting work here as Gere's flunky.
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