It was really good, but I was disappointed that the movie was so easy on the regulators. This was one of the easiest frauds in history to catch, and I can not believe that the SEC never did a simple check against the DTCC in all the years Madoff was running this scam. I had never understood that hole in the story, but it appears that the SEC simply never bothered to check. In 20+ years.
Deniro was pretty good, but Alessandro Nivola was excellent as Madoff's oldest son and probably deserves an emmy nomination. He was great in American Hustle too.