Ketrivie It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

Roy Hart If you're interested in the topic at hand, you should just watch it and judge yourself because the reviews have gone very biased by people that didn't even watch it and just hate (or love) the creator. I liked it, it was well written, narrated, and directed and it was about a topic that interests me.

Nayan Gough A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Edwin The storyline feels a little thin and moth-eaten in parts but this sequel is plenty of fun.

secondtake 99 Homes (2014)Central Florida as a hotspot for real estate scams, of course! With house prices soaring and then diving, there are those scum who profit from other people's loss, taking advantage of both their vulnerability and the government's loopholes.Michael Shannon as Rick Carver is wonderfully cast. A more intense "bad guy" would have been a caricature, and someone less bad would have left the movie flat. Shannon plays it down the middle, quick and no nonsense. It's business to him, after all, with only a slight bending of the rules that turns into not so slight paybacks.Andrew Garfield is a reasonable second man, and actually the main character. He gets swept into the scheme because, at first, he is the victim of one and needs to keep his family afloat. It's all too believable. The writing is stiff sometimes, and there are some small turns in the plot that are either confusing to the uninitiated or are just a bit off what you might think is likely. So hold your breath and keep going. The end is not a surprise (sadly), since the foreshadowing is obvious, but it still makes it round up with a bang. Mostly it's enjoyable for putting you there. And feeling the anxiety.

Zen Its at a budget loss. how can that be?! Shows you what the American (and Global) audience wants; some trivial tripe rather than something meaningful like this film.Can't reiterate enough, the acting was superb from both main characters.Yes, there are some flaws: iPhone 5 in 2008, a bit dull at times, felt too long. but art imitates life: we make mistakes in life, life is dull and it definitely feels long sometimes.But overall the movie is great felt more like a well-researched M. Moore documentary. And Shows you how Murica is going to become under an all-repub government.Good luck to us all.

Leofwine_draca For most of the running time, 99 HOMES is an exemplary thriller. It's always a delight when you find a film detailing a subject matter that's not been covered very much in film before and the financial crash of 2008 is the topic here, in particularly the glut of ill-conceived sub-prime mortgages in America that led to the worldwide recession. The film follows the fortunes of a real estate broker who makes a living from evicting people from their homes.It's an electrifying premise and one that's superbly directed by Ramin Bahrani who brings a documentary-style realism to his work. Certainly the camera-work is fantastic, often hand held and getting into the faces of the actors so that you feel close up and involved with the situations. However, the real ace up the sleeve is the casting of Michael Shannon as the criminal broker; he gives a performance of reptilian magnitude as an amoral money-hunter and he's simply magnificent. I loved this guy in BOARDWALK EMPIRE and he continues to go from strength to strength here.The eyes and ears of the viewer is played by Andrew Garfield, less impressive in a more subtle part. Garfield isn't bad when he gets the opportunity - he was fine in THE SOCIAL NETWORK - and he's more than believable as the desperate young man in this. Laura Dern and Clancy Brown flesh out the rest of the cast. The film is by turns intense, awkward, moving, and exciting, but always engrossing and not to mention gripping. The only misstep is a rather silly sub-plot in which Garfield tries to hide his work from his family, which feels rather irrelevant (if he's putting food on the table, what does it matter?). The other problem is the trite Hollywood ending; for a film that's exemplified gritty realism throughout, to cop out in this way is a real joke. Other than those problems, it's fine.

CineMuseFilms The Global Financial Crisis inspired several chaos of capitalism movies each with a different spin on the same story. For example, Money Monster (2016) is a hostage thriller, The Big Short (2016) a comedy drama, and Inside Job (2010) a documentary. All try to make sense of financial fiasco but a standout amongst them is 99 Homes (2015). It is a tense hyper-realistic drama that literally barges inside the safe space of people's homes, tosses them into streets, and points the finger at the moguls of real estate.The opening scene graphically portrays the brutality of poverty when a mortgage defaulters' blood-splattered body is quickly removed and the family thrown out so that a soul-less real estate agent can claim the property. The agent Rick Carver (Michael Shannon) is accompanied by local police for evictions and repossessions and they call him "Boss". Unemployed builder Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) is next to go and when he seeks a stay of eviction the local court sides with Carver. Nash shows guts and Carver offers him work in his thriving repossessions business that buys defaulted homes at rock-bottom prices. It turns out that Nash is good at it and there are several dramatic evictions in which angry mortgage defaulters are given a few minutes to grab their personal belongings before Carver's men legally empty the homes and force traumatised families onto what was their own footpath. Nash starts making real money from doing Carver's dirty work which includes fraud, theft, and the forging of documents to secure eviction orders. This is the ugly side of capitalism and Nash sinks deeper and deeper into a world of human misery. The stakes are raised when Carver is offered a multimillion dollar real estate deal that forces Nash to choose between the devil's wealth or moral redemption.This is a modern take on the Faustian dilemma of an ordinary man selling his soul, not for greed or greatness but to support his mother and kid. The acting performances are strong and the filming powerful, especially the close up hand-held camera scenes of evictions full of screaming palpable anger against real estate vultures. At almost two hours, it could have benefited from more time in the editing suite but overall the pace and tension are tight. It is an unsettling film but one that stays on message about the greed that preys on homes.