- Year: 2019
- Country: USA
- Director: Steven Soderbergh
- Starring: Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas
What a damn shame. A film about the leaked Panama Papers scandal could have been suspenseful, intelligent, deep and even educational. Instead Steven Soderbergh decides to direct it like he’s making another Ocean’s 11, with supreme self-indulgence and basically no shits given for anything but “look at me!” moments. And the script is so sidetracked by completely meaningless subplots that you spend more time learning about some of these peoples’ family dramas than what actually happened at all. The actors play their roles perfectly, can’t fault them there. The problem is the material is such a mess and the direction is so misguided that by the end of the movie, even as it attempts to redeem itself in the last 10 minutes, you just don’t care.
Cinema Del Peppel 