This is cliché heaped on cliché and hopelessly artificial.

... loses steam when the catfighting abruptly gives way to grim realpolitik.

The film is marginally enjoyable in that sort of sleazy Jerry Springer fashion, but the filmmakers aren’t making a compelling case here for why their artistic license is necessarily more amusing or insightful than history itself.

The concept of despicable people doing contemptible things never really leads to solid entertainment.