It's like _The Big Short_ but... boring. The reason being, as the previous commenter has pointed out, that the movie failed to give the viewer any reason to care about what is happening, the script and the direction failed in giving the story a personal dimension, so it feels like you're being lectured for an hour and a half.

For those who want to see the movie, here's the context: the Panama Papers is one the biggest leaks that detailed how governments, movie and sport stars, companies worked with law firms to avoid pay taxes and make scam schemes. Having said that, the movie should be good right? But no...the movie itself is slow, boring and only watched entirely because of the (average?) perfomances of the main actors.

What a waste of time. Very disjointed. Impossible to follow dialog. Hit every one of liberal's "hate capitalism hot button" and of course had to include the former Islammunist In Chief. If you don't like laws which allow corporations to shield themselves from taxes you problem is with the law makers not the businesses.

Great movie, don't listen to the critics.

Certainly not what I was expecting given the seriousness of the scandal, but I enjoyed the playful spin this movie took on the panama papers. I generally like movies where a few different stories are told with a common denominator and this was no exception. In a playful manner, it gave a vague explanation of shell companies and their impact/role from different perspectives and surprisingly gave me a new understanding of how the shell companies affected thousands of people.

If the film had focussed more on one aspect of the scandal, it might have been been more interesting. As it is, Sodbergh disappears up his own behind and overwhelms the viewer with 'cleverness' and fourth wall nonsense that borders on pretension. Still, Streep is worth a watch in a dual role.

Steven Soderbergh is one of the most interesting and unpredictable film directors out there.

With this having such a great cast and being a Soderbergh film, it's truly amazing how aggressively bland it is. It tries to break the fourth wall similar to The Big Short, but it feels undercooked and disconnected from the various subplots of the film. And speaking of those subplots...I had a hard time caring about any of the characters. Of course it is gross how the mechanisms of financial world work, but this film didn't really give us any new insights. I tried to like this but was just...so...bored.

This trailer is good but the film is nothing like that at all
It is so boring seriously don’t bother. It’s just like something about an affair and barely about the woman with the law stuff

I didn't enjoy this at all, yet I still weirdly reflect on it to be better than it had any right to be.

That's thanks to the cast of 'The Laundromat'. Meryl Streep (Ellen), Gary Oldman (Mossack) and Antonio Banderas (Fonseca) are the main reasons I'm not rating this lower. They stop it becoming an annoying watch. You also have Jeffrey Wright, David Schwimmer and Nonso Anozie involved too - as well as even Sharon Stone and James Cromwell.

I just didn't like the way they chose to portray everything, I appreciate what they went for but it simply didn't work for me. It's definitely one of those things, though, that will depend on the viewer - I'm sure many will find it good.

The comedy is extremely lacking, in accordance to my tastes anyway. Also, even though I praised Oldman and Banderas themselves, I found their characters particularly irritating - same goes with the ending.

Feels like it merits an inferior score and yet... A charitable 5*.

An anthology comedy that tries to show rich white people have nothing to worry about. Yet why they need a whole movie to say this is confusing. Oh well, at least Gary Oldman seems to be having fun, so at least one person is.

So the structure of this movie is simple: Take a personal Story combine it with the themes Fraud and Panama Papers try to explain it. But as a result this experiment is more messy than entertaining.

Yes, Meryl Streep is marvelous, no doubt about it. But in first part of the movie it is quite important. But then ?
The best momemts of the movie works best, are when Oldmann and Banderas talk to you, while anybody in the scenes is waiting.

But like Jermey Jahns said, you will forget this movie in T-Minus One Day ("Yeah, already forgot").

It tries to look like a docu-drama but blatantly fails. The acting is bad to worse, even Meryl Streep can’t save face in this movie. Leave docu-dramas to Roger Moore.

Can not believe Soderbergh directed this drek.