interesting but flawed

Rating: 6/10 (26 December 2007)

I have a feeling a lot of wannabe auteurs identify with the filmmaker and a perceived 'searing indictment' of business and organized religion.
There are a lot of parallels between leaders of successful businesses and religions - they're good at selling shared desires and dreams, and creating organizations that meet human need for belonging.
It is not the case that entrepreneurs and religious figures share ambition, ruthlessness and lack of scruples crossing well into the psychotic. Or at least not the successful ones.
And when the protagonists go over that line they're hard to identify with or even believe.
Some interesting twists, good performances, but ponderous and ultimately flawed.