Every Ben Affleck Movie Ranked From Worst To Best

A sharp, rough-around-the-edges debut for director Ben Younger, Boiler Room focuses on a young college dropout (Giovanni Ribisi) who gets a job as a broker for a shady investment firm.

Affleck is perfectly cast as the outfit's a**hole co-founder, who gives an absolutely mesmeric opening speech to the assembled new hires, but the entire cast is filled out with appealing rising stars, including Vin Diesel (rocking a full head of hair, weirdly enough), Scott Caan, and Jamie Kennedy.

It does admittedly all feel a bit Scorsese-lite, but if you're going to riff, why not riff on the best? There's a majorly lived-in quality to the writing that can only come with real-life experience, as writer-director Younger briefly worked at an investment firm and then spent years researching it.

This feels authentic in even its most sexed-up moments, yet there are far better movies of this type.