Der große Fake: Die Wirecard-Story

This "documentary thriller", a confusedly misconceived hybrid of a documentary and a thriller is a mind-blowingly boring collection of individual scenes that are based on random facts that were happily thrown together and do not help much to understand what happened at Wirecard, a badly acted "creative part" based on hearsay and speculations and interview snippets of people somehow involved in the whole story.

After the first few minutes you really want to gift both Hannah and Raymond Ley, the authors and directors of this farce a screenwriting 101 course and have to ask yourself just how awful their other work must be.

But it's not only the script: the acting is atrocious (especially Hartwig and Kunzendorf) and a laughably clichéd dive into the personality of the persons involved. The set design is ridiculous (imagine the real Markus Braun - or any other big company CEO for that matter - having an office with windows into another open-space office with other employees being able to look right into the CEOs office!).

Some people said one major reason this movie is a failure is because 90 minutes is just too short to process the complex story. I disagree: "The Big Short" did a similar task in 120 minutes. It's just that this feels like if someone wanted to do a German version of "The Big Short" but with hopelessly inept writers and actors that unlike Bale, Carell, Gosling, and Pitt make acting look very, very difficult.

I came with no expectations and was still disappointed.

This movie is neither informational nor entertaining. If you knew little to nothing about Wirecard it will leave you confused, if you - like myself - are well informed it is just an awful waste of time. Actually, it is so bad it made me write my first review after 15 years of being an IMDb user.