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April 29, 2005
How toxic personalities fueled Enron's downfall
By CHRISTY LEMIRE
AP Movie Critic
AP Movie Critic
With "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room," writer-director Alex Gibney takes a notorious tale of corporate greed and plays it as Greek tragedy, Texas-style.
The approach reveals him to be one of the smart guys, too. By focusing his documentary on the people behind the Enron scandal — their foibles, follies and moral frailty — Gibney takes a potentially dry, daunting topic and turns it into something eminently compelling.
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