Quartile rating: 6.5/10 · 1 rating
Explore the rise and fall of one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles in recent years – the story of WeWork, and its hippie-messianic leader Adam Neumann.
A competent but fairly standard corporate-downfall documentary that covers the WeWork saga with reasonable thoroughness. The subject matter is inherently dramatic and Adam Neumann is a genuinely compelling character, lending the narrative some natural momentum. However, the filmmaking approach is conventional — talking heads, archival footage, a linear rise-and-fall arc — offering little that distinguishes it from the crowded field of Silicon Valley cautionary tales. The cinematography is functional but unremarkable, as expected for a streaming documentary. Acting is not really applicable in a meaningful way; interview subjects perform adequately. The ending covers the aftermath satisfyingly but without any particular insight or punch beyond what the facts themselves provide. Novelty is modest — the WeWork story is singular, but the documentary treatment of it is not.