Don't waste your time - you know exactly what this is

Rating: 1/10 (3 November 2019)

The producers of TV's most popular Quiz Show are brought to trial on a cheating scandal and nothing really comes of it in this predictable been-there-seen-that beat-by-beat biopic that surmounts to a paint-by-numbers courtroom drama. You got the character who investigates a suspected scandal, goes house to house, asking people what they know, a lot of doors slammed in his face, some reluctantly talk, sound at all familiar? Nothing new, nothing different, nothing you haven't gotten before - it even has the, you guessed it, impassioned Hollywood courtroom speech that has the build-up applause and dramatic score, followed by the witness leaving the courtroom, going outside, and just before he gets in a cab, shooting one last glance back at another pivotal character, followed by the final shot of the courthouse - cut to "where are they now" text - you know, the standard favorite procedural Hollywood ending they continue to fall back on with like half the movies they churn out. If you've seen one courtroom movie, you've seen them all - this offers no relief from that safe, predictable template.