Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

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Jonathan K It’s packed with all the "gory" details and horrific actions you’d expect from a doc of this sort, so if you’re here for a history lesson, it does the job. But it’s not exactly well-crafted cinema, even for a documentary. Not terrible, or anything -- just very “here’s the timeline of events, enjoy.” Rated 3/5 Stars •  Rated 3 out of 5 stars 08/31/25 Full Review Leaburn O Feels strangely dated but a great cautionary tale of corporate greed and fraud. Enron happened just a few years before I joined the workforce and looking back, nothing had been learnt. It was no surprise that the financial crisis followed after eerily familiar behaviour in the subprime markets. Watched this one on DVD. Rated 4/5 Stars •  Rated 4 out of 5 stars 07/05/25 Full Review Shael The devastation of taking investors money and doing absolutely nothing with that cash but to line their own pockets and sell a success story with fake stocks. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/26/23 Full Review Rory M Fine. Very interested in business. Found the narrative a bit all over the place. Maybe I don't have the context of following it at the time Rated 2.5/5 Stars •  Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 03/24/24 Full Review Nawt W A remarkably engaging documentary about how "the boys" were selling potential profits for 20 years with just their smiles, audacious demeanor, and a little bit of fraud. It's been almost twenty years, and the story of Enron doesn't even seem that unique anymore. There have been so many ludicrous stories of "fake it until you make it" and general accounting fraud incidents that the question of how they could think they would get away with this seems foolish. Moreover, some of them got away with it. Everyone sentenced for this has since been released. Lou Pai has been affected at all, and Jeff Skilling is doing energy trading again. And what has changed since anyway? Everyone still fabricates numbers and facts to keep that share price high because that's paramount to success. Corporate ethics or lack thereof are still toxic just in a more refined way. Likewise, everything is still run by people who will go to their graves before they acknowledge that they prioritize their bottom line and hundreds of millions in offshore accounts over tens of thousands of employees. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/10/23 Full Review Michael S Explaining Enron's vast labyrinth of lies is a tall task, but Alex Gibney's Oscar-nominated documentary does a good job laying it all out... and making you furious in the process. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/31/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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