You know Ben McKenzie as Commissioner Gordon in Gotham, the guy stuck in the middle trying to stop criminals from grabbing whatever cash they could. Meanwhile, young Bruce Wayne is quietly sitting on most of Gotham’s wealth, and nobody seems to notice that the real “big score” is the guy in the cape. It’s a twisted setup when you think about it. A billionaire beating up the desperate. Robin Hood flipped on its head.
That same sense of something not adding up runs straight through Everyone Is Lying to You for Money. McKenzie steps out of the precinct and into investigator mode, and instead of chasing mob bosses, he’s digging into crypto. Same energy, different villains. This time it’s hype, misinformation, and a whole lot of people pretending they know exactly what they’re doing.
What starts as this shiny promise of financial freedom quickly turns into something messier. A volatile, anything-goes playground where fraud isn’t the exception, it’s baked into the system. Regular people jump in thinking they’ve found the shortcut, and more often than not, they’re the ones left holding the bag.
McKenzie doesn’t just skim the surface. He talks to insiders, pulls apart major collapses, and connects the dots in a way that makes you wonder how so many warning signs were brushed off or straight-up ignored. Crypto didn’t just grow. It was sold, hard. Marketed like the next inevitable step in money itself, while the risks were either downplayed or buried under buzzwords.
And that’s where the film really lands its punch. Not in the tech, not in the charts, but in the people. The ones who cash out early, and the ones who show up late and pay for it. It keeps circling back to that same uncomfortable question. Who actually wins here?
It’s sharp, a little dark, and more than a bit ironic. The kind of story where belief becomes more valuable than truth, right up until reality crashes the party.
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