McAfee is launched along with his much-younger girlfriend Sam (who’s interviewed later), earlier than the narrative abandons that a part of the story about midway by, selecting up with McAfee once more about 5 years later, in 2019, as he lurches from one disaster to the subsequent.
Russell clearly desires to make use of the grainy footage and up-close-and-personal publicity to McAfee’s ramblings to copy a way of the person himself, however there’s solely to date that may go with out weaving extra helpful context into the combination. As an alternative, “Working With the Satan” detours to inform the tales of those that adopted McAfee round, which provides little to the bigger plot past offering a short lived respite from McAfee’s lunacy.
Within the latter a part of the movie, the roster of sort-of narrators expands to incorporate Alex Cody Foster, a self-described ghostwriter who frolicked with McAfee and recorded intensive interviews with him.
“Possibly he was a assassin, however I simply love good tales,” Foster says.
McAfee was clearly many issues, and sure, a assassin may need been one among them. “Working With the Satan” could be forgiven for opting to not trouble bogging down a juicy yarn by wrestling with the morality of the person, however as offered, it is merely an excessive amount of of a large number to even qualify as a very good story.
“Working With the Satan: The World of John McAfee” premieres Aug. 24 on Netflix.