10 for Quality of Production, -9 For making a Hero out of a Charlatan

Rating: 1/10 (28 December 2016)

Smoking is bad for you. Duh. But when you know just a little bit of science you see right through this "whistle-blower's" claims. Tobacco companies added a chemical extracted from plants to give their product a more pleasant smell. They added green-leaf-volatiles; the chemical that gives fresh cut grass its pleasant smell. Jeffrey Wigand called it "rat poison." Warfarin is a rat poison in huge quantities and can be made from green leaf volatiles, it is also a life-saving drug that prevents strokes and heart-attacks. So the "whistle-blower" lied to make himself appear to be a hero. Tobacco companies called him a liar and were telling the truth, but since they are tobacco companies we have to believe every lie told about them. This movie fictionalized his exaggerations into a full-blown melodramatic hero-flick.