Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

2005

Action / Biography / Documentary / History

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 97% · 117 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 87% · 25K ratings
IMDb Rating 7.5/10 10 21413 21.4K

corruption capitalism bankrupt wall street scandal securities, stocks and bonds

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Plot summary

A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.

Director

Alex Gibney Photo
Alex Gibney

Top cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger Photo
Arnold Schwarzenegger as Self
Ron Wyden Photo
Ron Wyden as Self - Senator
Peter Coyote Photo
Peter Coyote as Narrator
Jay Leno Photo
Jay Leno as Self
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU
1004.64 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 5
2.02 GB
1920*1072
English 5.1
R
Subtitles
23.976 fps
1 hr 49 min
Seeds 30

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by rsanek 6 / 10

I'm surprised by the how often this movie

I'm surprised by the how often this movie is recommended on forums I frequent online, and the corresponding glowing Rotten Tomatoes reviews. I found the storytelling to be inconsistently paced, and there was nearly no depth to the description of actually how the fraud was perpetrated. The tie-in to California was interesting and I appreciated all of the primary content they were able to use -- company videos, recordings, etc. Still, I don't think I'd recommend this to a modern viewer.
Reviewed by GenerationofSwine 10 / 10

From the start the documentary makes it clear

From the start the documentary makes it clear that it's a hit-piece. It has a clear agenda it's pushing and the film makers don't hold back on telling the public that, yes, Enron was evil. However, honestly, despite that it was pretty fair. It actually made more of a point to detail how Enron got to the place that brought convictions rather than doing a straight hit-piece on the corporation. In other words, there is really a lot of meat on the bone here and it does a decent job of detailing the evolution of the company and why it turned out the way it did, rather than just focusing on the political mess that it created as one would have expected on a film covering this topic, and one with a fairly snarky title at that. There is a lot to learn from watching this, particularly because the scandal that engulfed the company was NOT the primary focus, but rather how it came to the scandal. And that, I really believe, is what the film should be about. It had a story to tell and it told it well, surprisingly well for a film that promised to be a hit-piece. We actually need more things like this. It was refreshing that it covered the circumstances and, most importantly, the hows rather than focusing on the results of Enrons actions. Illuminating would be the best phrase to use.
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