Representatives of Global Crosspower Solutions, played by Matt Damon and Frances McDormand, breeze into small towns in the US Mid-West offering to buy land from local farmers.
They're looking for land atop natural gas deposits, for which their company intends drilling through shale, a process we all know as fracking.
Most of their targets are farmers who are poor and beleaguered, who view the power company purchases as their only way out. But there are also opponents to fracking, who campaign against the planned purchases.
I must say I've had more excitement out of back to back episodes of The Waltons. This movie is tired, predictable, and we've seen all of it before.
The topic of fracking, albeit current, is just one example of putting lipstick on a pig.
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