The Lowdown: A handsome, largely gripping thriller.
Richard Gere in his 60’s? Yea Gads!
In Arbitrage, he’s still handsome as all get out but age – baggy eyes, reading glasses – is catching up with him as Wall Street fat cat Robert Miller.
Still, that’s the least of the silver fox’s worries; he’s committed fraud on a massive scale, his company’s merger is looking shaky and he’s the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
Richard Gere in his 60’s? Yea Gads!
In Arbitrage, he’s still handsome as all get out but age – baggy eyes, reading glasses – is catching up with him as Wall Street fat cat Robert Miller.
Still, that’s the least of the silver fox’s worries; he’s committed fraud on a massive scale, his company’s merger is looking shaky and he’s the prime suspect in a murder investigation.
As the tentacles of Miller’s deceit impact the lives of his loyal wife, (Susan Sarandon), daughter (Brit Marling) and lackey (Nate Parker), the walls begin to close in with a wily detective (Tim Roth) doing the pushing. Miller is a slippery snake too but blood sticks. Can money and power scrub it away?
Debut feature director Nicholas Jarecki, who penned the screenplay, handles it all deftly and Gere, Sarandon and Roth are at the top of their game. It’s a handsome, largely gripping thriller though a major deficit is an abrupt, ambiguous ending that’s less than satisfying.
Extras: Featurettes, interviews, trailer. (Unpreviewed)
Film: 4.0/5.0
Out: Now
Out: Now
This review was first published in Empire Magazine, March 2013.
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