"Dark Waters" was engrossing enough for me to stop watching on a summer weekend evening but return to finish it the next. It is not "Michael Clayton" or "The Insider." The reason? There is no tension or drama, merely a great deal of useless filler with Anne Hathaway playing a long-suffering but supportive wife, while Robert Bilott, the attorney who led the excruciating, drawn-out battle against Dupont, suffers with his clients.

"Dark Waters" would have been infinitely more impactful if it had included some fictionalized suspense about why the U. S. government/EPA took nearly a generation to approve Bilott and his firm's scientific data. As a docudrama, there is as little documentation of facts as there is drama.