‘Dumb Money’ review: GameStock stock surge movie is a tiresome bore

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Air” and “BlackBerry” made the genesis of the Air Jordan sneaker and the world’s first smartphone seem weighty and epic — not to mention a lot of fun.The same cannot be said of the tedious “Dumb Money,” which premiered Friday at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Running time: 104 minutes. Rated R (pervasive language, sexual material, and drug use). In theaters Sept. 22.About the 2021 GameStop stock surge, director Craig Gillespie’s pry-your-eyelids-open drama is two hours of drudgery and rattled-off money lingo that acts like it’s “All The President’s Men” when it’s really a bargain-bin “Social Network.”Our man is Keith Gill (Paul Dano), a k a Roaring Kitty, the popular investment analyst YouTuber who shook up Wall Street.

A far cry from those “buy buy buy!” guys on cable news, soft-spoken Keith wears a red ninja sash around his head and sits in his Brockton, Mass., basement doling out financial advice to his mostly young, intensely devoted followers.

When the geek encourages his fanbase to buy up cheap shares of the video game store GameStop — “I like the stock,” he earnesty says — the subreddit WallStreetBets gets onboard and soon the stock’s value skyrockets, shocking the markets and the all-powerful hedge fund billionaires who refer to chump retail traders as “dumb money.”The gist of Gillespie’s dumb movie is that a mighty group of average Joes wrestle control of Wall Street from the 1%.