Hollywood is no stranger to depicting the opioid industry.
Blunt stars as our whistleblower/window into all the excess, a Gulf Coast girlboss named Liza Drake.
Zanna is on the rocks.
Emily Blunt and Chris Evans in ‘Pain Hustlers’.Brian Douglas/Netflix
Are all her sales tactics above board?
Before long, she even tries to convince herself that she’s helping save the world.
The fat paycheck is just a nice side effect.
Even as Liza wrestles with the morality of their gig, her partner Pete has no such moral qualms.
Solid performances are overshadowed by chaos.
These are gimmicks that have been done before and better in films likeThe Big Shortand now just feel derivative.
The film itself is far more interested in all the sleaze and greed, not the consequences.
