 So, would you like to know who supposedly had all the money in the world at one point? Well this movie, All the Money in the World, supposedly tells you that, but what do I think about it? Well, let's find out. My name is Brennan Keith-Avery, and this is just my opinion. Hey, what's going on everyone? Thank you so much for tuning in to my opinion slash review for All the Money in the World. I really do appreciate it, but before we get into the review, my last movie review for 2017. Go ahead and help, I can't even talk, go ahead and help your boy out by clicking that subscribe button. Also click the bell so you can be notified when I do make uploads and give me that thumbs up. Let's see if we can get this video to 100 likes. So like I said, this is my last review for 2017. It is not my last video for 2017. I think I'm going to have a 203 more pop-up later today as well. But this is my review for All the Money in the World. It is directed by Ridley Scott. Ridley Scott for the most part is a pretty good director to me. I like him for the most part. He's done some great movies like Gladiator, G.I. Jane, The Martian, Prometheus. I really do enjoy those films. He's also did some stinkers like Alien Covenant. These are Exodus, Goss and Kings. I could not stand that movie. He also did Robin Hood that came out in 2010 and that was very disappointing and those are his stinkers. And he also has some movies that are in between like What Was a Body of Lies and just a few other films. But for the most part I do enjoy his movies and he is the one behind this. And right now as I'm filming this, I really don't like to date. Well, no, I'm not going to tell you what date is, but I did see this movie on Christmas Day with my family. I had an opportunity to see it before that, but I missed that opportunity. And I'll just go ahead and say for the most part I really did enjoy the movie. But I wasn't going to do a review about it because one, you know, of course I'll talk about movies. I have a channel. I have a site. The stories are more difficult for me at least to talk about because there's only so many things you can talk about as far as you can. You can't talk about the characters, the story, the decisions they made, etc. You can only talk about the way the story was told because it's based on a true story or based off a true story or a book. But about this film, not only is it based on a true story, but all of the footage is not necessarily true. At the very end of this movie there is a subtitle that comes up that says that this is based off true events. Something based off true events and based off a true story are two completely different things to me. Based on a true story is a predominately majority of the movie is all based on a true story. Based on true events is just they pick apart certain scenes and certain events. And those are true and they fill in the rest for dramatic effect. And there was a subtitle at the end that said that this is based on true events and a good portion of it is based on, you know, just made up for dramatic effects. And I kind of, you know, that kind of just turned me off from the whole film entirely. I mean, I still enjoyed it. But at the same time, me, I'm just like, OK, if this is my opinion, you're entitled to have yours. I'm just kind of like, OK, if you can't tell the true story from what it from what it really is, don't do it. Don't tell it. If you don't feel that it's a good enough story to tell how it is. Maybe it's just not good enough to, you know, make a film about. And it just makes me feel that you're just trying to make money. Of course, making films, making movies is a business. I completely understand that it is a business first. But me, as a film fan, I like movies to be treated as a piece of art first, that you can make money from, you know, if it's good enough. But, you know, that's the end of my rant right there. Now, at the intro of this video, I did the quotation marks because I was like, supposedly who is the richest man in the world? And this is one of the reasons why I really wanted to see this movie is because in the trailers in the marketing, that was like, you know, John John Paul Getty, the written not only the richest man in the world, but the richest man in history. And no, there was not a man that like popped up on the screen and was doing all these motions. That's just, you know, me being silly or whatever. But I was like, wait a minute. This goes into my complaint about this movie being based on dramatic true events. And the rest is just for dramatic effect because in my research, John Paul Getty was not he's probably the richest man in the world at the time that this movie took place, which is in Rome. Well, a part of it took room, a part of it took place in the states in the 1970s, 1973, to be exact. But he wasn't the richest man in history. OK, that title belongs to a gentleman by the name of Mansa Musa Fomali. And he was around from 1280 AD to 1337 AD. I remember coming back home, I was telling my little brother like, hey, man, Jean Paul Getty was not the richest man in history. It was Mansa Musa Fomali. That was a country in and West a civilization in West Africa. And I got the dates wrong. I was saying like three to four hundred AD, but it's actually, you know, in the 13th century or 1280 AD to 1337 AD. Now, right now, oh, my gosh, I cannot believe I'm forgetting the name of the guy that is the CEO of Amazon. That's the recently just passed Bill Gates is the richest man in the world. He's like worth ninety eight billion dollars. God, what is his name? The guy? Oh, I just have to look it up. Sorry, guys, I thought that I would have that memorized. I usually do, but I am having a brain for it right now. Jeff Bezos, I don't have to look it up. I remember Jeff Bezos. OK, so right now, Jeff Bezos thinks like ninety two, ninety five, ninety eight billion dollars. That's how much he's worth right now. He is the wealthiest person in the world. Now, Mansa Musa, what his wealth will be today is, I believe, four hundred billion. So that's over four times, you know, the wealth of Jeff Bezos and Bill Gates and all that stuff. Oh, I mean, that's like, I mean, I remember somebody was telling me that it was like three to four trillion dollars. I mean, but, you know, since that was in the 13th century, it's kind of hard to like, you know, measure all that, you know, but he was the richest man in the world. It's kind of sad because how he lost all of his fortune. He like crashed the world's economy because the man was so generous that he would just go around passing the world just giving away gold, just giving it away, giving it away, giving it away to people just like, I have so much here. I don't need all this. I mean, I mean, four hundred billion dollars or more. You don't need all that money. But like crashed the world's economy and also people found out that, you know, he was given so much gold away and he was so rich. So, you know, everybody in the world just started attacking him over and over and over and over and over again. You know, he eventually, you know, lost his fortune, but I digress back onto the movie. But I had to say that he was a Sultan, a king, an emperor. And so, you know, that's one of the things that kind of turned me on to the movie because I was like, OK, I want to hear what they're talking about and all the money in the world, saying Jean Paul get is the richest one. I know Mansa Musa is. And, you know, you know, they kept calling him that in the movie. And that's just something that I had to talk about. But there was a lot of contrast. Well, you know, somewhat a lot of a controversy over this film because originally the role of Jean Paul Getty was supposed to go to Kevin Spacey, but there was a number of sexual allegations against this man to where the studio was just like, look, man, we don't want all of this drama. We're trying to, you know, fill up the theaters, trying to get this box office receipts. We can't have no person that's being accused of this bringing down opportunity sales. And so the movie came out while release on the 25th of December. It was released on the 22nd, but on November 8th, they made the decision to go in and reshoot all of the scenes. Now they replaced Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer. It was the role was originally supposed to go to Jack Nicholson, but he turned it down. Kevin Spacey was doing the role, but he was replaced by Christopher Plummer. Christopher Plummer only had two weeks to remember his lines and the reshoot took eight days. And, you know, it also cost ten million dollars. There's also somebody by the name of Gil Harrison. Well, I don't talk about that yet. So and also when I was looking some things up, you know, Kevin Spacey is a great actor. I remember seeing the trailer with him in the movie. He just seemed really cold and just like he didn't really give a crap about his money or whatever. And so I got to stop saying whatever. I'm sorry. But when I was watching the movie, Christopher Plummer's role was like he was really warm and soft and enduring, you know, with his family just kind of seemed like, you know, he was a nice man. And so really, Scott was just kind of saying that when he was reshooting Christopher Plummer's role, his role, he did not want to show Christopher Plummer Kevin Spacey's performances because he wanted him to do his own thing. And he said that, wow, you know, they both played the role so different. You know, each caters to the film, you know, but of course, they're not going to use Kevin Spacey stuff. And, you know, they went on making a movie. Now, in this film, what it is about is John John, J. E. A. N. Poggetty's great grandson, John Poggetty, the third J. O. H. N. is kidnapped in Rome. And since Christopher, since John Poggetty, John Poggetty is like, you know, super rich. Of course, they want a ransom. And the his daughter, Gail Harris, who was being played by Michelle Williams. The role was originally given to Angelina Jolie, but she turned it down for unknown reasons or reasons that I don't know. And then Natalie Portman, you know, Star Wars. And what is the movie she won Oscar for? Black Swan, she did a great job on that. You know, she turned it down as well because she was expecting her second baby. But then it eventually went over to Gail Harris. But Gail Harris is like the middle and all of this. She's not. Well, I'm sorry. I misspoke Gail Harris in this movie is not the daughter of Jean Poggetty. She is the daughter in law. Jean Poggetty has a son, which I'll talk about in a second. She's in the middle of this. She's just like, oh, my gosh, I don't have any money. I'm not a real getty. You know, father in law, Jean Poggetty, please help me. Your grandson has been kidnapped. He's like, no, I'm not paying for no ransom or whatever, which is another thing they want to, you know, intrigue me to see his mom. Like, man, this is your freaking grandson. Like, why do you not want to pay the ransom to, you know, get your grandson back? You know, you know, you can't replace family or whatever. So that is one reason why I wanted to see this movie and also the richest man in the world thing. Now, I know I talked about a lot of stuff that necessarily don't have to do with the movie. I did enjoy the movie for the most part. Not I want to say for me. I enjoyed the movie had some pretty decent performances. I did not know how the movie was going to end, even though I didn't want to look up to see if, since this is based on true events, if they got the boy back or not, if they paid the ransom, I just wanted to go and call and be surprised. But it was an interesting story. You know, the characters, they did a great job, especially Mark Wahlberg, with this scene at the end. Gail, not Gail Harris, but Michelle Williams did a great job, too. You know, I really did like everything that this film had to offer other than the false things. But I don't know which is true or false. So it's just kind of hard for me to talk about it, to be honest with you. I was watching my I remember when I was watching a movie, something that turned me off in the beginning, that there was a lot of time lapses jumping from city to city from country to country, jumping back and forth through different times and things like that with subtitles. And I'm just like, I like after the eighth, ninth, the 10th subtitle to show me what year or city or country was. And I was getting first year like, man, this is kind of hard to follow. Usually, that's not something that's difficult for me. But I remember being a little distracted and annoying. But once things got to the actual present day of the movie, you know, things did start to flow a lot smoother. And Christopher Plummer, as Jean-Paul Getty, he did a pretty decent one, he did more than a decent job. He did a great job in the role. And I was just like, you know, before he I was first of all, I was really surprised with how much that he was in the film because I'm thinking maybe he's going to just pop up about two or three times because this is unprecedented. This is unheard of. No one reshoots a movie of this size with this amount of scenes a month and a half before it's released. That just doesn't necessarily happen. I mean, Mark Wahlberg had to go shoot on his birthday. Well, no, I'm sorry. The the first day of regular shooting started on his birthday in June. But he had they had to go shoot over the Thanksgiving holiday. So you can only imagine how frustrated some of the family was, you know, in America, they had to go up. Well, I don't know if they actually shot in Rome or use the Rome setting. I forgot that part. But, you know, this is unprecedented. So giving just how great the performance was by Christopher Plummer and how he had such a short amount of time to memorize his roles. He did get to read the script because he was considered before Kevin Spacey was cast, but just that time and the amount of scenes that he had in the movie that he had to do out of a short amount of time. He did a great job there. And what also just interests me about his performance and his character in the movie was I was just like, OK, you seem like such a kind person. So why is it so difficult for you to want to give pay the ransom to get your grandson back in the film? The great job is addressing that. I mean, at one point in time, they was having breakfast. Slight spoiler. And he had one of his other grandsons. I think he had like 14 grandsons. You had him opening up his mail. It was just like a stack, like like a stack. And like every letter after letter after letter was just people asking and begging and motion for money like, hey, I'm going through this. Can I have some money? Hey, can I have some money? And I can understand that they can get really tiring and just like I'm tired of everybody, you know, asking for my money. I got I earn my money. I work for it. You know, he got his money from oil from over in the east or whatever. And, you know, he worked and he just didn't, you know, everybody always had their handout. And also, you know, he had the mindset to where, you know, hey, if I just pay this ransom, then I got 14 grandchildren. People are going to be trying to kidnap my kids from everywhere. Try and then I'm just having to have to pay ransom after ransom after ransom if I just, you know, pay so easily. So that, you know, that that was a good point to me. And also in the movie, the kidnappers were anonymous and I every like everybody was sitting in fake letters to the FBI trying to pretend like they was a kidnapper because they wanted a piece of the pod. I wanted some of the cake. So that's just another example as well. Doing this whole kidnapping. Sorry about that. We got multiple perspectives from everybody involved. We got the perspective from, of course, Mark Wahlberg, a gentleman by the name of Fletcher that was over John Paul Getty's like, you know, protection and bodyguard and just a security. Of course, we've got the kidnappers perspective and the kidnapped. We got the worldview and we also got the worldview from Gail Harris, his mother, John Paul Getty, the grandson that was attacked. But one thing that really just stood out to me is we really did get to see the perspective from the actual kidnappers without the kidnap boy being there. And that's kind of how they lived and how they were trying to escape and stay undercover and things like that. And, you know, their motive behind all this besides just money and things like that. So that was that was pretty entertaining. There was a few moments I was at the edge of my seat, kind of in a way, just not knowing how this would end. It's like, okay, hey, he escaped. Oh, no, he didn't escape. I thought he escaped or, you know, they're going to catch the bad guys this way and that way. I didn't know how the movie was going to end. And it was kind of a guessing game all the way to the end. You know, and that, you know, that's pretty much it's again, it's kind of hard to talk about movies that are based on true events, but the movie just admits that a lot of it is false. But I was entertained by, and I think you will too. I think you will be too. If I had to rate all the money in the world out of a one out of 10, I would give it an 8.5 out of 10. Yes, an 8.5 out of 10. But guys, that's just my opinion. Have you seen all the money in the world or do you want to see it? Have I turned you on? Have I turned you off? Do you agree with me or do you disagree with me? Let me know in the comment section below. Let's get this conversation going and keep it going. If you liked this video, go ahead and give me a thumbs up, and if you don't, that's fine. 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