Vanguard's supermarket in Shenzhen has 350 staff, and 500 other people promoting not just expensive electronics, but also cheap items like toothpaste and shampoo.
Some FlyerTalk members advocate practices designed not to breeze through a checkpoint, but to specifically expose the TSA's hypocrisy: tricks like carrying frozen shampoo and using the most obscure forms of valid ID.
Director Scott Hicks ("Shine") bathes the whole show in an amber halo that makes the Deep South look like an antiseptic shampoo commercial and shies away from anything that might be dramatically sticky, complex or even halfway interesting.