The China Hustle Movie Script

This is a perfect storm.

Yeah, the eBay and Amazon and PayPal is pretty easy, but it's a Netflix; it's a Groupon... I mean, it's a perfect storm.

It's the first time a major Chinese Internet company has gone public in the United States.

Uh, there's an old joke that the biggest lie on Wall Street, is that this time, it's different.

Alibaba's profit for the second quarter, jumped some 179 percent to $2 billion.

It's a perfect storm.

That's what this is.

You don't have the ability, to really research it.

You're buying lottery tickets.

Alibaba is lottery tickets.

Charismatic founder, Jack Ma, has the stage presence to rival many tech icons.

Should we jump in and buy Alibaba stock?

Yeah, it's China.

Is there something looming down the pike that's even crappier than this?

I, I could make that argument.

There's Jack Ma, having met with the president.

Jack and I, are gonna do some - great things.

- Small business.

- Thank you, Jack.

- Thank you, sir.

The CEO of Alibaba, Jack Ma, says, "Just trust us, just trust." In this country, when anyone says, "Just trust us," the first thing you do is, hold on to your wallet.

You don't trust anybody, and you don't trust anything, you can't see and research for yourself.

And that goes for Alibaba too.

- So why do you keep at it?

- F*** 'em.