The acting is strong, the plot is initially intriguing, and it's enjoyable for about the first hour. But then it descends into cliches -- upright workers who care about craftsmanship and their fellow man, heartless management without values whose greatest pleasure is eliminating jobs -- and the plot becomes schematic and hard to fathom. There's one black in the factory, and it's of course him that befriends the oh-so-earnest lead character, as if blackness confers moral superiority. You know where we're headed, and it isn't a Tea Party convention.With an RT rating of 97, most viewers will undoubtedly enjoy the film. But there's probably 20% like me who will intensely dislike its jejune politics.