Watching them make their plans and cheat people and be disloyal to their friends and lovers is boring. This movie is about two such men, Jack Abramoff and Mike Scanlon, and they are worthless people that no one with a soul can empathize with or relate to at all. Republican culture is full of sleazy, cynical con artists with big dreams that hinge on manipulating people and ripping them off. They are fakey, boringly executed accounts of real things that happened, they feel like they take a million years to watch, and they really only appeal to people the first time they see one. If you've seen one, you've seen them all. They don't realize that the HBO docudrama is a genre of its own, and they all are directed like this, and have this kind of music and structure and pacing and so on.
A lot of the reviewers on this board are treating this like a real movie and complaining about the style, the pacing, the acting, or whatever. Movies like this, Spinning Boris, Barbarians at the Gate, Recount, bla bla bla.
