The film shrewdly filters this examination through the character of Abramoff, generally conceded to be the best in the business of connecting money to power. Peter Fitzgerald frankly calls “a system of legalized bribery.” Is the problem personal or endemic, “Casino Jack” asks were times more innocent in the past, or were we just naive? It’s a film about lobbying, about how interest groups get their voices heard in Washington through a process that former Illinois Sen. Gibney’s latest, coming after the bitter Congressional battles over healthcare and financial reform, couldn’t be more timely. As previous credits such as “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” and the Oscar-winning “Taxi to the Dark Side” demonstrated, Gibney is as good as it gets at making complicated political material come alive on screen. “Casino Jack and the United States of Money” is a film that’s always on the move, a smart, lively, thoroughly involving doc about a complex, critical subject. You should make an action movie,” he advised, which, in the best possible sense, is what Gibney has done. the Man Who Bought Washington, asked filmmaker Alex Gibney. “Why would you make a documentary,” kingpin lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a.k.a.
