7/10
Good but could have been great
13 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
This could have been a great film about labour relations in a globalised world. Instead we get a much more narrow and black and white perspective. Management basically being crooks and the communist union protecting genuine workers' right. It is sad that the direction didn't have a better grasp of reality. Still the move has good moments and raises interesting questions.

One thing I don't like is the director's way of using dirty tricks to get his audience on the union side. First the union woman is portrayed as an awful and disgusting person. Then the same person gets the last word after the audience have started to dislike her. Cheap trick.

Still the movie is quite good but nothing extraordinary. My limit of a watchable film is 6 and a great film is 9 on the IMDb scale.
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