So I didn't really learn anything new here. Overall, I already knew people from Texas tend to be greedy, Republican and lame I already knew money tends to corrupt and I already knew almost every detail of the Enron scandal. I guess they just typed "California" into iTunes and used the first results they got, or asked their 13 year old nieces to recommend some songs. Even the song selection is dopey: the maddeningly overused "California" by Phantom Planet (theme song of the TV show The O.C., of course), and the simply terrible "Californication" by the Red Hot Chili Peppers. There is a great gotcha scene involving California wildfires, but also an unneeded detour into the Milgram experiments of the 1960s. Ken Lay is hardly mentioned at all, since the filmmakers mainly focus on his minions Jeffrey Skilling and Andrew Fastow. There are continuity problems, such as when they are at mid 2001, then suddenly jump ahead 2 years to Arnold Schwarzenegger's election, then jump back to 2002. The plot obviously wrote itself, and the filmmakers did a middling job of illustrating what went wrong and why. Remember people, we're reviewing the film, not the Enron debacle itself a reviewer below gave this 5 stars as an apparent javelin through the heart of all Republicans, without even mentioning the film's merits.
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