Marchands de douleur

L’influence du Loup de Wall Street perdure. Marchands de douleur raconte une autre histoire, basée sur des faits réels, de réussite commerciale qui n’était pas tout à fait légale. Emily Blunt est agréable à regarder dans de beaux costumes, et Andy Garcia est bon dans le rôle d’un patron milliardaire. Mais le film repose sur des formules, manque d’une touche artistique dans sa réalisation et, bien qu’il ne soit pas ennuyeux, son intérêt réside uniquement dans le fait d’expliquer comment fonctionne le commerce des médicaments, depuis le fabricant jusqu’aux pots-de-vin versés aux médecins qui ne prescriraient pas ces médicaments autrement. La cupidité et l’égoïsme ruinent la vie des patients. Le personnage d’Emily Blunt est le seul à éprouver des remords et des regrets. Et c’est tout. (28/10/2023)

I like these films, but it lacked more drive, a fiercer pace and better situational humour. Wall Street and Dumb Money are maybe a level or two up, but Pain Hustlers still has its bright moments. It terms of plot it follows a familiar template and goes sadly without surprises. Emily Blunt gets lucky with an interesting job and starts making some decent money, but a person can only on top for a while and classically things start to fall apart again and you kind of wait for it to end. There are a few deaf spots, unfortunately, but the insight into the corruption of the pharmaceutical industry was good. The trial turned out interesting and surprising to me and Emily Blunt stole it nicely for herself. 65%. (31/10/2023)

To the doctor on my deathbed and to the pharmacy not even for vitamin C... A decent Netflix movie filmed at an unexpected Wolf of Wall Street pace about the rise of a start-up pharmaceutical company and how market greed kills. The acting trio of Emily Blunt, Chris Evans, Andy Garcia revels in every scene, but it's Blunt who takes her complicated motivations that elevates Pain Hustlers a notch higher. Captain America, on the other hand, is unexpectedly understated, though handles very well the asshole salesman role who knows that's just the way things works. A nice surprise, especially for routine artist David Yates, who needed redemption after the wizards. (02/11/2023)