Movie Review #112

I watched the documentary "Maxed Out" on our free Netflix subscription. This 2006 documentary is pre-recession discussion on the burden of debt in American and how people get sucked into credit with the crazy interest rates. Credit card companies act like leeches sucking most of their money out of young and poor people, knowing full well that they can never pay it back. Rotten Tomatoes gave this film 88% but I thought it didn't really qualify as a great documentary. It wasn't that engaging, didn't address any personal responsibility towards credit, and the big message that Credit Card Companies are Evil wasn't exactly new to me.