Steven Soderbergh's dark comedy about the lead-up to and fallout from the Panama Papers leak stars Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas.
High Flying Bird,an eccentric, slap-happy account of shenanigans down Panama way. The panoramic approach taken by the director and writer Scott Z. Burns makes for a wide variety of bizarre encounters among people you'd never expect to see in the same movie, but the arch comic tone clicks only part-time, never coalescing into an assured sardonic style. After multiple big festival bows and a limited theatrical run beginning September 27, this mischievous outing will hit Netflix on October 18.
Fast talking is what Jurgen Mossack and Ramon Fonseca, real-life guys played by Gary Oldman and Antonio Banderas, periodically do to somewhat tortured effect throughout the film. In direct-to-camera commentary delivered with “What, me worry?” inflections, they justify their behavior in a high-minded manner meant to be darkly amusing but that actually proves increasingly annoying as things proceed. These guys do protest too much.
Although nothing in life has prepared Ellen to assume the mantle of international financial sleuth, she persists in her effort to get to the bottom of what begins to take on the dimensions of a gigantic shell game. One cannot deny that the characters she encounters are colorful and occasionally amusing. But Ellen finds nothing but non-accountability all along the sordid, watery trail which has tributaries all over the world.
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