The Banker (2020)

…And that’s how the hommies came up.

It’s a slow burn but a good burn. The type of story that had a good punchline.

I have no interest in banking and despite the numbers being less complicated than The Big Short I had no interest in letting that spike my interest.

But of course, banking was just the frosting of what this layered cake is really about.

Anthony Mackie was perfect as Barnard Garrett, a black man, good at math who had a plan to become more than what his upbringing told him to be and knew how to focus his anger to make it happen.

Samuel L. Jackson was perfect as, well Sam L. Jackson. loudly sticking it to the man with the guts to back it up.

Together, it was the perfect combo of everything that black power was at that time. So it was cool seeing these two brothers from different walks of life coming up with a plan not only to bring themselves up but the whole neighborhood.

This movie was good because the topic grab my interest, and it was that focus on the topic that made this worth seeing.

Nicolas Hoult was also good in it. an interesting supporting actor to both Mackie and Jackson and he did his part, really well.

A shout out to Nia Long, who used this part to display the struggles of being both black and a woman in any time period.

This movie was about two African Americans trying ageist all odds to live the American dream, The Banker was consistent with this ideal throughout the whole movie and its this that drives the movie and makes it good.