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What makes him the movie's focal point is the knowledge he collects for his book.Ī movie doesn't have to have a hero - look how badly everyone came out in Barbarians at the Gate, which skewered all the players involved in the attempted leveraged buyout of RJR Nabisco. In fact, as a young and newly hired Enron employee, he hardly got hurt by the company's collapse. In one scene that would make him out as hero, Cruver is shown trying to shred documents that will save one of his clients from financial catastrophe as the Enron ship goes down.īut Cruver was not a hero. We see the negative effect the company's slide has on his impending marriage - a completely invented scenario since the marriage of the real-life Cruver and his wife was never in jeopardy.Ĭruver, played with a perpetual grin by Dallas native Christian Kane, is inadequate as hero, the movie's extraordinary manipulations of the truth notwithstanding. We see Cruver as he joins the company, learns the lingo and gets swept up in a win-at-any-cost atmosphere. It focuses too much on Cruver, who worked at Enron for only nine months, and not enough on the real "stars" of this show, the executives at the helm when the ship went down. Loosely based on Brian Cruver's Anatomy of Greed, the movie screams for more wit and cleverness than screenwriter Stephen Mazur ( Liar, Liar) can provide. If the movie does nothing else, it provides understanding about what the fall of Enron was all about. And it paints the executives with a brush too wide and too black.īut it has been made, and CBS deserves a modicum of credit for that, because a story about energy trading, virtual accounting and financial collapse is not the easiest to tell. It is out too early to know the fates of the principals. It doesn't mollify because it lacks a proper denouement, and it doesn't focus on the principal players. It doesn't entertain because it is simply not witty, and perhaps because it's too soon to laugh at the misfortune it has caused still-hurting Houstonians. It offers just enough truth to make it interesting and too many lies to take it seriously. It doesn't educate because it does not add new information to the still-unfolding story.
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