Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

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Overview
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
Reviews (2)
rsanek (Rated: 6)
I'm surprised by the how often this movie is recommended on forums I frequent online, and the corresponding glowing Rotten Tomatoes reviews. I found the storytelling to be inconsistently paced, and there was nearly no depth to the description of actually how the fraud was perpetrated. The tie-in to ...
GenerationofSwine (Rated: 10)
From the start the documentary makes it clear that it's a hit-piece. It has a clear agenda it's pushing and the film makers don't hold back on telling the public that, yes, Enron was evil.
However, honestly, despite that it was pretty fair. It actually made more of a point to detail how Enron got...
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