The Good Boss * * * *

Trust me.

One is quickly immersed into the organization that The Good Boss, owns and manages. 

Blanco Scales is a  well regarded small company that manufacture weighing scales for different industries.

Javier Bardem plays the owner most convincingly. Charismatic, successful charming. He has a philosophy that staff are family. They are like the children that he and his wife unfortunately never had.  He encourages them to talk openly with him about any issues. His Company is competing for an Industry Award for a Model Employer and he is determined Blanco Scales should win.

As the film progresses the mask slips though and the "charming" Blanco proofs to be no less psychopathic than the infamous gas-fueled killer Bardem played years ago in "No Country for Old Men".

Oh, the smile will remain, along with the gentle caring voice, but what we have is an ugly example of the entitled, small businessman who feels that ultimately everyone is there to serve him personally so that his egocentric, sexual and condescending needs are met.

To watch it slide into this degenerative state is creepy and disturbing.  Anyone who has worked for such a person will quickly recognize the situation and feel the chill up their spine.

In it's black humored way it is also very funny.