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Watch: The Laundromat 2019 123movies, Full Movie Online – When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin (Meryl Streep) begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world’s wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes. Founding partners Jürgen Mossack (Gary Oldman) and Ramón Fonseca (Antonio Banderas) are experts in the seductive ways shell companies and offshore accounts help the rich and powerful prosper. They are about to show us that Ellen’s predicament only hints at the tax evasion, bribery and other illicit absurdities that the super wealthy indulge in to support the world’s corrupt financial system. Zipping through a kaleidoscope of detours in China, Mexico, Africa (via Los Angeles) and the Caribbean en route to 2016’s Panama Papers publication – where journalists leaked the secret, encrypted documents of Mossack Fonseca’s high-profile patrons – THE LAUNDROMAT’s ensemble cast includes Jeffrey Wright, Melissa Rauch, Jeff Michalski, Jane Morris, Robert Patrick, David Schwimmer, Cristela Alonzo, Larry Clarke, Will Forte, Chris Parnell, Nonso Anozie, Larry Wilmore, Jessica Allain, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Matthias Schoenaerts, Rosalind Chao, Kunjue Li, Ming Lo, with James Cromwell and Sharon Stone..
Plot: When her idyllic vacation takes an unthinkable turn, Ellen Martin begins investigating a fake insurance policy, only to find herself down a rabbit hole of questionable dealings that can be linked to a Panama City law firm and its vested interest in helping the world’s wealthiest citizens amass larger fortunes.
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Ratings:

	6.3/10 Votes: 51,407
	41% | RottenTomatoes
	57/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 1027 Popularity: 13.168 | TMDB

Reviews:

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*.

Remember the Panama Papers? Those leaked documents that detailed how various people and companies created off-shore shell companies in order to avoid paying billions if not trillions in taxes around the world? No?

I’m not surprised. It was a huge story that seemed to become a flash in the pan and many people forgot about it after the coverage dried up because, very likely, the corporations that run the news media tried to bury it. But these folks didn’t forget.

The film’s title refers to the whole operation as generally being a money laundering scheme. Featuring an ensemble cast of Hollywood who’s who as well as who’s that, this Steven Soderbergh film invariably draws comparisons to Adam McKay’s “The Big Short,” both in subject matter and style. The narrators, played by Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas, frequently address the camera directly. Usually, this has the effect of making the audience feel like they’re in on the scheme, but it’s not as effective as when it was used in, say, “House of Cards.” Why? I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it likely has to do with the complexity of the scheme. Their characters are more than just narrators, but are actual players in the overall story, lawyers who created the paperwork and did the legwork to get these schemes off the ground. As such, they actually try to explain it, both simplified and with a certain complexity that leaves one a little unsure of the truth. Maybe that was the idea, but from a storytelling perspective, it didn’t quite work.

And effect is part of the problem with this film. Aside from being done as a comedy for what is in fact a very serious subject (the reporter who exposed this story was later killed by a car bomb), this film doesn’t feel very effective in conveying outrage. In fact, it feels less like outrage and more like being impotently miffed. The film doesn’t feel like it conveys the gravity of the situation. Which is very disappointing given the talent involved and the chance to really bring this subject back into the public eye. While I have to give the filmmakers credit with trying to make the complex money laundering scheme in the Panama Papers digestible to a general audience and keeping this visible, ultimately it feels like it’s too little too late.

Enjoyable exposé of offshore banking
This is an enjoyable, funny, exposing portrayal of the corrupt system of offshore accounts and how some apparently disconnected events share links back to the corruption at work. Maybe it shouldn’t be funny because this is an infuriating reality that could be fixed if…well, if legislators were themselves not corrupt. Yes, the telling of the tale is not done in a totally conventional straight-forward linear way. But it is easy to follow and amusing, even as you feel you should be angry. And of course you realise that this film won’t change a thing. But it is well made and acted.

Good job making a complicated affair entertaining and mostly comprehensible
First of all you need to concentrate in this rewarding movie about the Panama Papers. Some of the transactions may be confusing but you don’t have to understand it all to enjoy the movie. The bigger picture will come to light.

It’s not easy to make a dry complicated topic accessible and entertaining. They more or less succeeded here. There are 3 highlighted chains of the scandal all linked to the lawyers Mossack and Fonseca played by Antonio Banderas and Gary Oldman who narrate through thick accents. 1. Meryl plays a woman pursuing a insurance claim from a boat accident that wasn’t paid because of a shell corporation formed by MF. 2. An obviously corrupt African man in LA using shell corporations he claimed were valuable but were emptied out to defraud. 3. The Chongqing corruption scandal of Bo Xilai and Gu Kailai involving murder and money laundering via such companies.

Worth a watch.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 36 min (96 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Comedy, Crime, Drama
Director Steven Soderbergh
Writer Jake Bernstein, Scott Z. Burns
Actors Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, AJ Meijer
Country United States
Awards 8 nominations
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix N/A
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1, 2.39 : 1 (China segment)
Camera Red Monstro, Sigma FF High Speed Lenses
Laboratory FotoKem nextLAB (digital dailies)
Film Length N/A
Negative Format Redcode RAW
Cinematographic Process Digital Intermediate (4K) (master format), Redcode RAW (8K) (source format)
Printed Film Format DCP, Video (Ultra HD)