Michael Winterbottom and Steve Coogan reteam for 'Greed,' the satirical tale of a billionaire who parties with the rich and famous on Mykonos for his 60th birthday.
It became a kind of mantra for those go-go years at the end of the Reagan era and immediately beyond.
At first, this story about one of the world’s more notoriously awful one-percenters — a slippery and abusive fashion magnate named Sir Richard McCreadie — may feel like the last thing we need to sit through at this particularly fractious moment in time.
Via the egomaniacal McCreadie — and Coogan’s expertly hateful turn — the film vividly, unsettlingly shows how whoever holds the purse strings holds the power, and how one wields that power makes all the difference. To that end, McCreadie fails the humanity test miserably — he’s vile and cutthroat and seems proud of it. Nonetheless, he keeps himself and his savvy ex-wife, Samantha , kids and crusty mom awash in mammoth wealth.
The coordination of McCreadie’s spare-no-expense birthday bash with its crazy planning glitches is lampoon-worthy stuff, though not so out of whack compared to the wildly over-the-top lifestyles of the rich and famous we’ve become near-inured to by the heavily documented exploits of the Kardashians and others. Still, McCreadie’s celebrity-centric, “Gladiator”-themed party, with its faux amphitheater , toga costumes and actual lion, gives Winterbottom plenty of droll visual gags to work with.
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