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The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.
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Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer, Roy McCrerey, Michelle Williams, Ghassan Massoud, Andrea Piedimonte, Marco Leonardi, Timothy Hutton, Olivia Grant, Andrew Buchan, Stacy Martin, Francesca Inaudi, Romain Duris, Charlie Shotwell, Charlie Plummer, Giuseppe Bonifati, Nicolas Vaporidis, Guglielmo Favilla, Adele Tirante, Maya Kelly, Anna Devlin, Kit Cranston, Stanley Treshansky, Ginevra Migliore, Josie Sayers, Charlotte Beckett, Giulio Base, Nicola Di Chio, Alessandra Roca, Francesco Bomenuto, Clive Wood
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90
It's a true-life yarn loaded with extremes, of wealth, personal eccentricities, grief, tension, daring, criminal means to political ends, maternal drive and luck, both bad and good. It is also a peek into a rarefied world where money knows no bounds and yet means everything.
85
Scott whips it all into shape: the tense action involving the kidnappers, the investigation’s twists, the maddening campaign to give Getty a financial incentive in freeing his grandson, and the emotional toll it takes on everyone (Getty included).
80
All The Money In The World is not perfect; there is a touch of naïveté and stereotyping in its depiction of the malign Italians with their one, redemptive nice-guy gangster. But with the help of Plummer’s tremendous villain-autocrat performance, Ridley Scott gives us a very entertaining parable about money and what it can’t buy.
80
As ever with Scott, the film unfolds in a richly realised world and moves with an addictive, free-wheeling swagger. And his four main actors – Williams, Wahlberg and the Plummers old and young – have all been astutely cast.
80
David Scarpa’s nail-biter of a screenplay—based on John Pearson’s 1995 account Painfully Rich, adapted with a free dramatic license—amps up the tension with phoned-in demands and impulsive raids by knuckleheaded local police, yet it never loses the bitter, fascinating taste of imperious wealth.
