Dont watch this movie if you wanna see a straight comedy. The jokes are too subtle and too intelligent or simply too obnoxious, to evoke big laughs. I would still recommend this movie though to those who long to be really confused and puzzled. Watch it if you like intelligent movies that make you start to think or have doubts about the subject of the story:
how to promote a product that kills people by the hundreds of thousands.
It is kinda weird to see a movie defending the tactics these cigarette companies use to sell these cigarettes. There are some laughs though, because it is funny to see a cigarette lobbyist use the act of clubbing baby seals to death in his campaign to promote smoking. It is also very funny to see a cigarette lobbyist tell little children at school, to think for themselves and not take for granted as the truth what their parents teach them.
Conclusion: It is a rather sleezy, yet still (cringelike) amusing movie about promoting lying and bribing.
Endnote: Watch "The Insider" with Al Pacino and Russel Crowe though if you wanna see a real TRUE TO LIFE thriller that does NOT glorify the big tobacco lobbyists.
how to promote a product that kills people by the hundreds of thousands.
It is kinda weird to see a movie defending the tactics these cigarette companies use to sell these cigarettes. There are some laughs though, because it is funny to see a cigarette lobbyist use the act of clubbing baby seals to death in his campaign to promote smoking. It is also very funny to see a cigarette lobbyist tell little children at school, to think for themselves and not take for granted as the truth what their parents teach them.
Conclusion: It is a rather sleezy, yet still (cringelike) amusing movie about promoting lying and bribing.
Endnote: Watch "The Insider" with Al Pacino and Russel Crowe though if you wanna see a real TRUE TO LIFE thriller that does NOT glorify the big tobacco lobbyists.