Filmmaker Alex Gibney's lively and engrossing documentary uses the rise and fall of mega-lobbyist Jack Abramoff to probe the sordid world of influence-peddling in Washington D.C.
di Kenneth Turan The Los Angeles Times
"Why would you make a documentary," kingpin lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a.k.a. the Man Who Bought Washington, asked filmmaker Alex Gibney. "No one watches documentaries. You should make an action movie," he advised, which, in the best possible sense, is what Gibney has done.
"Casino Jack and the United States of Money" is a film that's always on the move, a smart, lively, thoroughly involving doc about a complex, critical subject. As previous credits such as "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" and the Oscar-winning "Taxi to the Dark Side" demonstrated, Gibney is as good as it gets at making complicated political material come alive on screen. [...]
di Kenneth Turan, articolo completo (4679 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The Los Angeles Times 7 maggio 2010
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