Title: Oil as addiction
Product review: If you think of the USA's oil consumption as an addiction, like a drug addiction, then this convoluted, but decent, movie begins to make sense. Addicts use all kinds of rationalizations to defer the spotlight from their bad behavior. That's how this multi-plotted film plays out. Several story threads ultimately come together in a somewhat grey tale of corruption, at both the corporate and the government levels. This is a moral tale about how far down the dark path the country has gone to feed its addiction to oil, as a nation with only a small fraction of the globe's population, but a huge percentage of global oil consumption. George Clooney does well here, and I usually don't like Hollywood message movies.
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