If you're on board with Vice and their crap, than you'll dig this. Yeah, Vice is trying to be more of a "legit news service" lately, but in 2009 they were still a crappy and sleazy tabloid rag run by jerks that loved pranking people for money. Rather shallow group of idiots back then.
That all said, the film stays well enough away from the truth to be mildly entertaining. But, the desaturated film effect gets dull superfast and the accents are laughable. I suppose that if you've never ever heard of Jesco and live nowhere near West Virginia, you might take this all in as true. Sadly, it's a notch above a Hallmark film in quality and made me long for the documentaries.
That all said, the film stays well enough away from the truth to be mildly entertaining. But, the desaturated film effect gets dull superfast and the accents are laughable. I suppose that if you've never ever heard of Jesco and live nowhere near West Virginia, you might take this all in as true. Sadly, it's a notch above a Hallmark film in quality and made me long for the documentaries.