exhilaratingly prolific film-maker Michael Winterbottom – working with additional material from Sean Gray from "The Thick of It" – has served up a breezy, funny, unsubtle scattershot satire-melodrama all about the moral squalor of the super-rich
an enjoyable but insufficiently scathing satire; it's enjoyably funny but never feels clever enough to be truly scathing; The material is undoubtedly blood-boiling but, in its imperfect execution, Greed ends up feeling like an opportunity missed
a serrated but superficial portrait of how capitalism distances the rich from its consequences, Winterbottom's damning sendup is often right on the money, but its broadside attacks on the ultra-rich are too obvious to draw any blood or raise our hackles
by Tim Robey [Daily Telegraph (UK) ]
