Wal-Mart's home office in Bentonville, Ark., can rest easy: Greenwald, as usual, is hysterically preaching to the choir.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price (2005)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:24
Rotten:2
Average Rating:7/10
Rated: Not Rated
Genre: Musical & Performing Arts
Synopsis: Robert Greenwald (OUTFOXED) continues his expose of evil corporate doings with this documentary, released as part of Wal-Mart Week, a nationwide activist initiative to bring the company's business... Robert Greenwald (OUTFOXED) continues his expose of evil corporate doings with this documentary, released as part of Wal-Mart Week, a nationwide activist initiative to bring the company's business practices out into the open. From their disturbing morning cheer to their minuscule benefits packages and sweatshop-labor conditions, the documentary addresses the simple question: does America benefit from the presence of this low-priced chain? Employee testimony and statistics make Greenwald's case clear and effective, and the stories of enforced, unpaid overtime and the death of mom-and-pop businesses can hardly fail to leave viewers both saddened and enraged. [More]
Director: Robert Greenwald
Director: Robert Greenwald
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Reviews for Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price
If you think you already know all about how evil and rapacious America's largest retailer is, wait 'til you see this latest exercise in muckraking from Robert Greenwald...
Robert Greenwald's documentary makes a devastating case against the largest retailer on the planet.
...will win few points for art...but its subject matter provides such a wealth of material that subtlety is hardly required, nor even desired.
For all its missteps, the movie powerfully suggests that Wal-Mart is capable of demoralizing a community so thoroughly that it doesn’t have the spirit to carry on its life outside the big box.
Try though Greenwald might to not end things on a defeatist note, one observation from early in the film lingers: What Wal-Mart obliterates in small communities can never be replaced or regained.
Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price lacks the cinematic panache to elevate it above the level of agitprop. But its all too relevant dissection of its subject is well worth paying attention to.
A searing expose of the greed and systemic poor treatment of its workers by the largest corporation in the world.
Viewers may not be surprised to learn of Wal-Mart's horrific track record, but they can't deny Greenwald's airtight advocacy.
Once again David slays Goliath in a documentary that has no pretense of being objective
Whatever Greenwald lacks in style he makes up for with a deluge of facts and figures and a populist feel that make his movies, this one included, accessible even to the most politically naive.
These good people cast their votes, close up shop and then scratch their heads, wondering how something like Wal-Mart could happen in a place like America.
Greenwald paints a portrait -- one that has Wal-Mart frantically countering with damage-control plans -- that says the corporate juggernaut is sticking it to all of us.
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