FILM REVIEW – MAD MONEY

By Sivu Nobongoza

At first I wasn’t sure if this story was about “a lot of money” – as in Mad Loot, or whether it was a movie about money that makes you mad. Within the first minute of the movie I knew exactly what it was about, a lot of money that makes you mad. I’m talking about the type of Benjies Scrooge McDuck takes lunch time Olympic dives into. The type of cash that could save the rhino, stop genocides, humble Mugabe, find Osama or even bring back JFK from the dead. I don’t think there was anyone in that entire cinema, let alone the Cavendish building that’s ever seen the colossal amounts of cash I’m talking about.

Mad Money sets it off on the right note. It’s a movie about 3 female janitors who decide their tired of cleaning the toilets of the Federal Reserve Bank, one of the most highly secure banking facilities in the planet; and decide to take the future into their own hands, since their only other options is to die a slow poverty-stricken death.

Expired Diane Keaton, an upper-class grandma and housewife finds herself without any of her usual luxuries and is forced to take a job as a janitor to feed her family. Here she meets the comical ghetto Queen Latifah and the wonky Katie Holmes to complete her mastermind team of bank robbers. This film takes its seat right next to bank robbery classics like the Ocean’s series and Inside man - Clever, witty, gunless and provocative as hell. I guarantee you that you’ll do cartwheels after you’ve seen his one.

Thanks to Good Hope FM’s Suga’s Silver Session for sharing this gem in what was a memorable premier screening. Encore gives this baby a fat 4/5. Yessir!