SummaryFrom the producers of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room comes a Wall Street heist story about a still-unfolding financial crime so big, it has the power to affect all of our wallets. Investors on the fringes of the financial world feverishly seek new alternatives for high-return investments in the global markets, and have found a goldmine in C... Read More
Directed By:Jed Rothstein
Written By:Jed Rothstein
The China Hustle
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Metascore
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Mar 19, 2018
90
Docs like Jed Rothstein's excellent The China Hustle present us with such frequent occasions for outrage that, in the interest of fairness, it's time for a few top documentarians to assemble a five-minute disclaimer to run in front of each new exposé.
Apr 18, 2018
78
The influence of executive producer Alex Gibney is clear in the photography and editing (making Gibney-esque now officially a term of art), but he has his own adept, incisive skill in linking a truly global economic crisis in the making, threading the narrative all the way from rural China to Flint, Michigan.
Mar 28, 2018
75
A brisk, entertaining documentary that shows how the world of investment works.
Mar 29, 2018
70
[An] accessible, persuasive, often amusing look at how investments in dubious Chinese companies gave way to crisis-level losses for average American stockholders in the wake of the 2008 financial disaster — and beyond — and made some U.S. bankers and lawyers and Chinese executives a bundle.
Mar 30, 2018
63
The China Hustle is not interested in offering a crumb of hope, thereby enabling the frustration it will inevitably arouse in viewers to dissolve into apathy once the credits roll.
Mar 29, 2018
60
Rothstein’s film, for the most part, is more well-reported exposé than it is cliché-driven agitprop, a film that blows the whistle on ongoing financial crimes.
Mar 28, 2018
50
It’s a mildly engrossing if wonky exercise in what could be called a kind of selfish activism.
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Jan 8, 2021
7
A doco that plays out like a crime/heist movie. Does shine a light on the crimes of big businesses and how they get away with it.
Aug 6, 2018
4
China Hustle was revealing in yet another disgusting mega-financial fraud perpetuated on the public. Where it lacked was in resolution. There was a token effort by some of the principals to get the attention of Congress but there was little to no effort to involve the SEC or get them on camera as to their ignorance or non-action in this area. This presentation was more about describing the problem than resolving it or presenting a plan to resolve, so it lacked a satisfying conclusion. Finally, this covered the time period of 2008 to 2012 so it's not clear this is a continuing problem or the fraud has run its course. At the end, it threw some shade on the Alibaba IPO (2014) but nothing firm. Again, easy to throw shade, cast asperions, but we can watch "Real Housewives" for that. Investigative documentaries need to bring investigations to a close either with convictions, acquittals, or new laws/regs designed to address the problems.
Production Company:
- 2929 Productions
- Jigsaw Productions
- S. J. Gibson Films
- The Kennedy/Marshall Company
Release Date:Mar 30, 2018
Duration:1 h 22 m
Rating:R
Tagline:It's Time to Look at Your Investments
Awards
Hamptons International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
CPH:DOX
• 1 Nomination
Golden Trailer Awards
• 1 Nomination
