It’s likely that a History Channel documentary relying on vintage photos and talking-head interviews of those involved with the 1952 rescue would have been more emotionally stirring than this production.

Ice Cube and Kevin Hart again work well together, although this time there are limitations – while I’ve been praising Hart in one mediocre movie after another, this is the first time that his shtick finally starts to wear thin.

The script’s great swatches of humor, and superlative performances by the entire cast (including Steve Carell and Christian Bale as two of the outsiders who saw the crisis coming and sought to profit from the banking industry’s greed and stupidity), the film lays out the case in layman’s terms.