Sensationalized story; bad sound

Rating: 6/10 (8 July 2014)

The production values of this movie were pretty low. The sound was awful. In many scenes, the dialogue could not be heard clearly without turning the volume up so loud that the sound effects were overwhelming. It made we want to turn the closed captioning on, except the movie has none. The on-screen titles were also much smaller than they needed to be.
The story that is being told is pretty clear. Everything is thrust at the viewer in black and white, not in shades of gray. The FDA agent is made out to be a cartoon character, unwilling to seize even blatant drugs being brought across the border for purposes of distribution. It seems the story of Woodroof has been sensationalized more than was necessary. But this is in keeping with the filmmakers' (note apostrophe) technique of making everything black or white with no shades of gray.