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The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

This movie feels like it was made purely to piss off people who want good shows

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

If you have a Walmart (or two) in your town, take a look around and tell me what you see. Do you see thriving small businesses or do you see Walmart and a slew of other big box stores in domination? Does your town offer HUGE tax breaks to their local small businesses or does that money go to stores like Walmart? And ask just how much your town is paying for those Walmart employees to have Medicaid. Don't just take this documentary's word for it... ASK! Perhaps in a "Part Two," this documentary of Walmart could shed light on the enormous amount of IMported goods it shoves off to Americans at the peril of underpaid workers in Asia and at the loss of American jobs. Ask your legislator what they've done to protect small businesses from being swallowed by the likes of Walmart. ASK!

This was not a bad documentary by any means. Excellent points about subversive business practices were brought up and explored. The problem I had, of which others seem to agree, is that it focused so much on walmart and walmart only. True they are a little more well known than most for these sorts of subversive business practices as I have said, but they are clearly not the only company doing them. This makes the film come off as a little overly bias and, in my opinion, takes away from its credibility. Perhaps the documentary would've been better off not focusing so much on walmart and looking at the bigger picture. At times it simply seems like they're grasping at straws.Overall, however, a solid documentary worth your time if not your money.

Well, this movie did fail to be entertaining in many areas but it did hit on some key notes. Yes, they do drive down wages, although providing more jobs. That is a catch-22.Some people have commented they have good wages. That is not the case as they don't pay too much higher than the minimum wage in most areas and fail to check on immigration status. I even know times they fail to check AGE status, hiring underage workers and failing to catch their real age.As far as not being able to move of the 'food chain' in the store, that is also generally correct for the most part. The only way to make a good wage there is if you enter the Assistant Manager program and they can ship to several different areas.The film notes times when they have been turned down recently. However, several of those cities listed near the end of the film have come back and accepted Wal-Marts to be built.This film shows the downsides to this corporation. Wal-Mart goes for the cheapest in many ways and avoiding paying higher wages. But if you get down to it, other businesses (like minerals, etc) that also pay low wages to keep the cost down, so Wal-Mart isn't the only one, just the biggest one.Overall, its not that even handed, but it does make the public more aware of its bad side. "C"

I'm somewhat bemused by comments by viewers like Mr Donald Fagan of Baltimore. The gist of his argument seems to be that Robert Greenwald is being unfair to Wal-Mart because other "big box" stores are playing the same game. The whole point of targeting the Wal-Mart chain is the sheer scale of their operation. If the senior management team at Wal-Mart achieve their ultimate goal, pretty soon there isn't going to be any K-Mart or Sears or ....whatever. One could just as easily argue that the Alex Gibney documentary "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" was unfair to the top brass at Enron Corporation because other technology companies like "WorldCom" and "360 Networks" were run just as dishonestly! Nobody disputes that, but again you have to take the sheer scale of the operation into account. If only sleaze-bags like Michael Moore could produce documentaries as honestly and professionally as Robert Greenwald, the industry would be all the better for it in my opinion