The Banker

George Nolfi directs with a TV-movie straightforwardness and at two hours the film is overlong, but the story is an eye-opener and the central performances are terrific.

For good stretches, The Banker can be as dryly engineered as a loan application, but the galvanizing story it tells — like a last stand of rebel ingenuity before the Fair Housing Act of 1968 made discrimination unlawful — is a solid interest-earner.

The story chronicles a fascinating moment in the civil rights movement, without yielding quite the returns that it should.

The Banker remains only serviceable.

Mackie does a decent job of articulating his anger, and the filmmakers clearly care about the issues, but The Banker doesn’t take the narrative risks necessary to tell its story powerfully. Competence is all we get instead, and competence isn’t quite enough.

The Banker is a sadly facile and largely surface level rendering of a profoundly complex problem that deserves more attention.

The Banker is like a shell of a movie, with a desperate lack of personality. The ingredients are there, down to the inevitable moment in the end credits when photos of the real people are placed alongside the actors playing them. Yet just as Apple TV+’s original series are lacking the element of dramatic excitement, so too is The Banker.

This movie is an incredibly powerful true story set during Civil Rights about two forgotten heroes that inspires people to pursue their version of the American Dream at all costs and not let obstacles get in the way such as race and discrimination.

This film is touching, sad, frustrating and uplifting in all the right places. The best film that Apple TV+ as to offer.

good story and strong performence. and I love movie about justice. just watching

Two fantastic, very watchable actors, but a story devoid of almost any and all intrigue or interest. Non-eventful, or at least the events depicted were not given enough gravity.

(Mauro Lanari) Ethnic equality of access to the American dream. But hadn't it turned out that it was a nightmare instead?