Worth Reviews

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but since there was a decent cast involved, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, it turned to be an intriguing drama. Indeed, I thought it was interesting to see the point of view of a lawyer on this massive tragedy, Michael Keaton was a perfect choice to play the main character and he delivered here another strong performance. However, none of the other characters was developed whatsoever, even the character play by Stanley Tucci, but that wasn’t the biggest issue with this movie though. Indeed, even though the material was definitely intriguing, to be honest, they didn’t do anything really interesting with it after all. Basically, back then, Ken Feinberg was supposed to find a way to settle this tragedy, at least, on a financial level, for the US government and for the victims, and while this process might seem cruel, inhuman and insensitive, it was also crucial for the US economy and the US in general in order to not literally collapse. Well, even though I thought Feinberg had some solid rational arguments, I was not one of the victim though and, for them, his terms were unacceptable. And, yet, just a few days before the deadline, the guy still managed to get around 95% of the victims to sign this deal but that was actually what went wrong with this movie. Indeed, in my opinion, instead of actually displaying how he actually did it, they spent too much time showing that they didn’t agree with what he proposed on and on again. Eventually, they argued that, by talking with some of them (they were around 7000 estimated victims), he managed to turn this thing around but it was not really convincing. First of all, he might have talked to 100 of them at best and, eventually, they all accepted the settlement he proposed, albeit a different version of it but still. Eventually, the whole thing felt too much like a tribute to the awful pain and sorrow suffered by these victims and to the tremendous work accomplished by Feinberg and his team when it should have been more about the actual process of getting to them accept such a financial settlement in such dreadful circumstances. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, it was still a decent watch though and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in this subject.