Fast Food Nation

The concept of making a fiction movie from a book which had its Warhol-esque fifteen minutes of fame for detailing the practices of fast food joints is definitely a bizarre one. There are moments within this movie that were enjoyable but a lot of it leaves you wondering why they bothered with the scene. Do we really care is ultimately the problem with the film as a whole. It fails to find it's voice or a particular focus. The story of imigrants crossing the border and working in the meat processing factory could have been a movie in itself but ultimately it becomes lost amongst the other stories, and as do they.