Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005)
Directed by Alex Gibney
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
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But though we’re still down and out, at least we’re filthy rich in films: from features such as John Wells’ The Company Men, Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air to documentaries such as Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story and Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
Unlike recent documentaries on the subject (Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room and Inside Job, to name two), there’s no attempt to paint a perfectly clear picture.
The unnecessary After School Special moralizing is jarring and obvious, robbing it of the slickness of films like "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" and "The Wolf of Wall Street," which drive home the same points without breaking their breathless flow.