"Money Monster," directed by Jodie Foster, wants to be a meaningful message movie and a taut thriller. While Foster succeeds in building the tension with the action in the TV studio, once everyone leaves the studio, she is less successful with the action and the message, piling coincidence upon contrivance. The script wants to emphasize the corrupt nature of Wall Street, but ends up illustrating the greed of one individual. Lee Gates (George Clooney) is host of a reality money show where he is more carnival barker than financial adviser and Patty Fenn (Julia Roberts) is his weary director. With the cameras rolling, Kyle Budwell (Jack O'Connell) walks onto the set with a gun and forces Gates to don an explosive vest. It seems Budwell has lost his entire savings with an investment advised by Gates. "Money Monster" wants to be a smart thriller but it's undone by a script that, despite a stellar cast, resorts to hard to swallow contrivances and implausible actions by some characters.
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