Michael Beverly

The acting was good to brilliant, so I gave it 2 stars instead of one. What a condescending steaming pile of doo this movie was, preachy, over-the-top, and explotive. Drug policy in America is insanely terrible and the real cause of all this anguish is American policy-makers refusal to stop being nannies and stop putting people in jail/prison (or threatening to do) for moral crimes and behaviors are choices (often bad ones). All the government does is take a terrible problem and magnify it and make it worse. Look, imagine this movie was about alcohol, instead of the greiving parents of dead oxy addicts (each chapter starts with real people who lost someone due to various connections to oxy) you could have a couple grieving over their dead alcoholic kid or their kid killed by a drunk driver. The hyprocrisy is insane. I watched my mother slowly starve to death in extreme pain because the government (both state and federal) had rules in place to severly penalize doctors for being too liberal with pain meds. So, yeah, I was rooting for the "evil" corporation in this film. The former "crazy eyes" actress was brilliant, deserves an oscar for her acting, but the character she played was hateful, disgusting, and typical of a government busy body who wants to run everyone's life for them. No thanks, I'd rather die of my own stupidity than be told how to live by a do-gooder government official. So, yeah, if you want to be mad about drug policy, watch this movie. If you really want to see how much the government hates you, watch Dallas Buyers Club. The government doesn't care one bit about you or your loved ones, they care about profit, just like the evil corporation, so yeah, I guess the movie was good in that sense, it reminds the viewer how much the US government is addicted to sucking the lifeblood of it's citizens. Well, there you go, if you want to yell at the tv, watch this. If you don't need to be told corporations are evil money grubbing monsters who do nothing but peddle death and the government is filled with wonderful caring empathic heros, then you can pass...