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Review: "All The Money In The World"

When Sony Pictures  decided to abruptly pull their latest film All the Money in the World from AFI Fest in November, people were surprised. Then when director Ridley Scott announced he planned to  replace the film's star Kevin Spacey with Christopher Plummer a mere month before its scheduled Christmas release date, people were downright shocked. And now, in the most impressive of ways, Scott actually pulled this last minute reshoot off in only nine days! But what about the film itself? Outside of all this behind the scenes drama, is it any good? I’ll give you the short answer: Yes. All the Money in the World is based on the later years of real life American industrialist J. Paul Getty  (Plummer), who went a long way from his Minnesota roots to become—at the time—the richest private citizen who had ever lived (which with inflation today would be close $9 billion). The central plot focuses on an infamous and publicly-followed incident where one of Getty...