Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price

Yet, despite the inherent lack of suspense in this "bad corporation!" genre... Robert Greenwald's documentary still generates enough jaw-dropping revelations to make it more than just an exercise in confirming anti-globalisation prejudices.

Advocacy journalism at its most unsparing, and it demands to be seen, discussed, argued with, and acted upon.

Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price lacks the cinematic panache to elevate it above the level of agitprop. But its all too relevant dissection of its subject is well worth paying attention to.

While the Wal-Mart story cries out for a similar thorough going expose, Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price isn't so much a film but the raw materials from which a film has yet to be assembled.