Sunday, January 18, 2009

(36) Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Directed by Alex Gibney
Rated R
2005
109 minutes

**** 1/2

Anyone who was maybe too young to get the enormity of the Enron scandal should check out this film. I had always been under the impression that the scandal was caused by just two or three main guys, but when you realize the amount of people who were doing things that were, at the very least unethical, it's really a shock. Gibney adds his own personal touches that have now become commonplace in his film (clever chapter titles, pop songs, "salty" language) that makes this rise above the standard PBS documentary.

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