The China Hustle

2017

Action / Documentary

25
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 76% · 35 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 76% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 7.1/10 10 4088 4.1K

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Plot summary

An unsettling and eye-opening Wall Street horror story about Chinese companies, the American stock market, and the opportunistic greed behind the biggest heist you've never heard of.

Director

Jed Rothstein Photo
Jed Rothstein

Top cast

Pat O'Brien Photo
Pat O'Brien as Actor in black & white film clip
James Chanos Photo
James Chanos as Self - Founder, Kynikos Associates LP
Carson Block Photo
Carson Block as Himself
Dan David Photo
Dan David as Himself
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725.77 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 7
1.36 GB
1920*1072
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 22 min
Seeds 21

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by Waldorf-1979 8 / 10

Great expose on investment banks and funds

The big players in the financial industry are never satiated. Right after the 2008 crisis where the whole industry was bailed out by taxpayers they start a different scam. Using dirty legal tricks they manage to get billions out of "dumb money" (aka your 401/pension/savings). The regulators don't care. Nobody does due diligence. And people exposing the scam face harassment and even prision. Both in USA and China.It's amazing how this house of cards keeps on going.Sadly this documentary has big 2 flaws. It doesn't have enough material to fill the full length and it lacks in production.
Reviewed by AlsExGal 7 / 10

Documentary about a rather obscure financial scandal

This is about yet another financial scandal. It's a perfect follow-up to The Big Short. After the crash of 2008-2009, some clever guys, both Chinese and American, worked out another way to scam the markets. Some smaller banks, especially Roth Capital, which threw lavish conferences featuring entertainment by the likes of Billy Idol and Snoop Dogg, and Rodman and Renshaw, captained by the former Democratic presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark, pushed reverse mergers.You've never heard of reverse mergers? Chinese companies could not be listed on the New York Stock Exchange, so they "merged" with defunct American companies which had previously been listed, and presto change-o, now Chinese companies were on the exchange. There was no penalty for making outrageous claims about the assets of their businesses, and many Americans were only too eager to buy into this new opportunity. Neither the SEC nor Congress was concerned about the fraud involved. The "heroes" of our movie investigated some of these companies in China, a dangerous matter, published their research, and shorted the companies' stock, betting that the value of their stock would fall when the truth was revealed.The China Hustle does a good job of explaining the financial matters so that the average viewercan understand. Neither the SEC, big law firms like Loeb & Loeb, the big accounting firms, nor Congress come out looking very good in this one.
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