Casino Jack And The United States Of Money (2010)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 64
Fresh: 53 | Rotten: 11
Casino Jack's subject matter is enraging, but in the hands pf director Alex Gibney, it's also well-presented and briskly entertaining.
Average Rating: 6.8/10
Critic Reviews: 24
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 6
Casino Jack's subject matter is enraging, but in the hands pf director Alex Gibney, it's also well-presented and briskly entertaining.
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Lobbyists have long played a powerful role in American politics, but it wasn't until Jack Abramoff became the center of a 2006 corruption scandal with ties to leading members of Congress (and even the White House) that many became aware of just how deep and pernicious their influence truly was. The son of a wealthy businessman, Abramoff became a Republican activist in college, involved in programs to raise funds for GOP candidates and supporting political movements in Angola and South Africa
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Auds will feel info-glut over the course of the two-hour-plus film, which is hardly the desirable response for a piece of reporting on the vital issue of the corrupting effect of money in American politics.
Top CriticThe narrative trots all over the globe, including stops for labor exploitation in the Marianas Islands, dealings with Russian mobsters,ripping off Indian tribes in the desert southwest, and jetting to Scotland to golf with impressionable politicians.
Buying votes in Congress, illegal then, legal now.
Dully tells the blood-boiling story of the convicted disgraced conservative superlobbyist Jack Abramoff.
A filthy toad of a human being whose every wart is revealed in this hard-hitting documentary.
A morose but instructive story about the destructive influence of money--and fanaticism--on American government.
There's not much new in Casino Jack and the United States of Money, but it is a lucid, entertaining documentary.
You need to see this movie. You need to see it not just from an historical perspective of hypocrisy laid bare, but as a cautionary tale.
The subject matter is likely to enrage and for all the appropriate reasons.
Offers a wide-ranging look at Abramoff's antics, from promoting sweatshops in Saipan to cheating Indian tribes out of casino revenues.
Picture a dry PowerPoint presentation, divided into chapters with a fade-to-black screen scrawled with cutesy titles. Are we short-changed with this doc? You can bet on it.
Alex Gibney pulls the same feat he achieved with "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," making complicated financial chicanery first understandable, then entertaining, then completely maddening.
Disheartening though, at times, dizzyingly entertaining,..
Abramoff and a few others landed in jail, but there's little joy to be had from this saga, since a long list of other crooks from the Bush-Cheney glory years never served time for their crimes.
Gibney takes a labyrinthine, detail-laden story and crafts an attention-holding film, polemical without ranting.
A lot of the film is rambling. Points aren't connected very well, and it feels needlessly convoluted. Worse, the tone seems completely inappropriate. If Gibney can't take the subject of human slavery -- in the Marianas islands -- seriously, how can we?
You can't make this stuff up, folks. Gibney does a fine job laying it out on the table for what it is.
Gibney laudably launches a withering attack here on the pay-to-play relationship between lobbyists and lawmakers. But this viewer felt withered, too, by the end of his battering ram of a movie.
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