The fake-it-to-make-it story of Elizabeth Holmes, the twenty-something entrepreneur who set out to revolutionize medical lab testing, was already told in John Carreyrou's fascinating book, "Bad Blood'. So when prolific documentarian Alex Gibney directs, you expect greater use of the visual tools film offers - not just a first half reveling how Holmes impressed others, and a second half disproving how she failed them. What irked me, was showing how another documentary grand-master, Errol Morris, promoted Holmes by filming some of her ads, and in effect, making him look like an idiot. Trust me - there's much more intrigue to this tale.
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