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Corruption, greed, booze, and drugs. The wild life of... stock brokers? Seth Davis (Giovanni Ribisi) is a hot shot hustler running a casino from his home who gets a chance to swindle stocks at a shady brokerage firm.

Seth learns that the only way to succeed in his line of business is being as unethical as possible. The brokers get together and watch Wall Street, and judging by the way they've memorized every line it's clear that it isn't the first time they've seen it. Morality is out the window with these guys, and it just might be too much, even for a guy like Seth. He got out of the casino business to appease his father, a judge, but will his father see past his stockbroker story and see what kind of firm he really works for?

There's no doubt that Boiler Room is a Wall Street copycat. On the plus side, Wall Street was a good movie. The father-son side of the plot isn't quite as well done, but I think the stock trading action is just as good, if not better than it's predecessor. There is a lesson to be learned here, that greed is the ultimate antagonist, and hopefully it's laid out strong enough so that future scammers won't be memorizing every line from this movie. Performances by Ribisi, Nicky Katt, and Nia Long were satisfactory, while Vin Diesel acted at his average level, which is pretty poor. Luckily for this movie his role wasn't big enough to sink the whole film.

Rating: 7.0 out of 10