This disjointed movie about corporate corruption and its innocent victims doesn't live up to the star power of Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, James Cromwell, and many, many more.
Director Steven Soderbergh proves he's not quite as reliable as we thought, working from a script by Scott Z. Burns, who adapted the non-fiction book Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein.
Soderbergh, who has stopped pretending he's retiring from movies, is once again using the stage names Peter Andrews (his father was Peter Andrew Soderbergh) for cinematographer and Mary Ann Bernard (his mother's maiden name) for film editor.
The music by David Holmes is supplemented by these songs.
Streep was last blogged for Mary Poppins Returns, Oldman for his Oscar-winning turn in Darkest Hour, Banderas for I'm So Excited, Cromwell for The Artist, Soderbergh and Holmes for Logan Lucky, Burns for Contagion.
We chose to ignore the Rotten Tomatoes' critics' rating of 41% and its audiences' of 45 to watch this on a rainy vacation day October 16. So we went to The Addams Family the next day.
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