This is an entertaining enough movie, and for one obvious reason - the performances. Matthew McConaughey is great as Ron Woodruff, a rough-hewn guy who contacts AIDS and subsequently channels his energy into selling "alternative medicines" that are not FDA approved, through semi-clandestine means. Jared Leto is even better as his transgender business partner - Leto gives a fantastic performance. Jennifer Garner is in this also - likeable, as always.
After the movie finishes slicing and dicing its path past you, you might look back and think - what did I just watch? What was really accomplished? Were the FDA really the bad guys here? Did this script just manipulate the living heck out of a fairly minor story - inflate a real-life event to "movie proportions"? And then you might like it less.
But the performances are worth watching. Rating : C-.
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