I don't know quite what to make of this movie. It's all about that company in Panama that was exposed a couple of years ago as setting up thousands of tax shelters and dummy corporations so wealthy shitheads can shuffle their money around and avoid paying taxes to anyone.
It's present as Antonio Banderas and Gary Oldman playing the two guys who set the company up, explaining what's going on, and how they aren't bad guys. It's not their fault if someone can't get the apartment they dreamed of in Vegas because a couple of Russians bought it with their probably illegal-gained cash as a way to hide taxes. Or if people use it to bribe officials in various countries to award them contracts for bridges or highways.
It's kind of done like it's supposed to be funny, I guess because these two guys know they're scumbags - or that they're perceived as scumbags - and they want us to understand their point of view. While the movie is actually pointing out it's all really corrupt awful crap, and money completely ruins government. After awhile it's just depressing because you know none of the worst people are ever going to suffer any real consequences, and the people who were screwed by all this are just screwed. I guess except for that one guy trying to blackmail the Chinese government official who got poisoned. He died.
I do wonder if the movie was telling the truth when they point out even the director has 5 of these sorts of companies set up in Delaware. Heck, even the film's writer has one.
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