This, of course, led to a highly-publicized-but-in-no-way-surprising arrest, trial, and conviction, so for awhile there, the name 'Jack Abramoff' was synonymous with 'shady douchebag' much in the same way that the name 'Charlie Sheen' is now synonymous with 'drug-induced lunacy and megalomania': Abramoff was a pseudo-celebrity, so it was probably just a matter of time before someone turned his shady-ass life into a movie.Īctually, let's stop for a moment and talk about The Informer. See, Abramoff was using all manner of shady tactics to swing voters, legislation, and Washington fat-cats in whatever direction he wanted them to swing, and eventually he was busted being the shady douche that he was.
He was a 'lobbyist'- and if there's a few things I can say I liked about Casino Jack, one of them is that the film really explains what it was that Jack Abramoff actually did (job-wise) very well- and he was a criminal, generally at the same time. As you may or may not know by now, Jack Abramoff was one of the biggest douchebags in Washington, DC at a time when douchebags were clotting every street in that city. Regurgitating the plot is necessary when reviewing films, but I confess that I'm absolutely dreading doing it here.
