A major message if this film is that many hospital administrators care more about money than about people, even if it means breaking the law. If that is true of the hospital administrators depicted in this movie, then this movie does a despicably poor job of portraying that. It makes no effort to explore the reasons why admins would be pressured to compromise patient care.
I could believe that hospital administrators sometimes exercise poor judgement when faced with impossible moral dilemmas. Instead they are depicted as pure evil. Frankly, that's hard to believe, especially when that accusation is being simultaneously leveled against 10+ independent hospitals.
It is also implied that law enforcement in the jurisdictions of each hospital ignored evidence of criminal wrongdoing and that more people should have been prosecuted.
This movie is superbly acted. It is well done in many other ways. However, it is undermined by an inability to fairly consider the merits of the other side of the argument. Consequently, the film destroys the credibility of its primary message.
I could believe that hospital administrators sometimes exercise poor judgement when faced with impossible moral dilemmas. Instead they are depicted as pure evil. Frankly, that's hard to believe, especially when that accusation is being simultaneously leveled against 10+ independent hospitals.
It is also implied that law enforcement in the jurisdictions of each hospital ignored evidence of criminal wrongdoing and that more people should have been prosecuted.
This movie is superbly acted. It is well done in many other ways. However, it is undermined by an inability to fairly consider the merits of the other side of the argument. Consequently, the film destroys the credibility of its primary message.