An average movie

Since I’m a big fan of Michael Moore, of course, I was really eager to check this flick. Even though he has become the most successful documentary maker ever (at least, if you consider the box-office), this movie is actually pretty obscure and almost no one on listal has actually seen it. Well, unfortunately, I have to admit it, it is so far his weakest effort. I mean, the whole thing was basically a failure when you realize that Moore has actually become a victim of his own success. Indeed, each time he gets up on the stage, you don’t think you are watching a movie-director or a controversial thinker, you get more the feeling that you are watching a mix between a rock-star and a stand-up comedian and that was just plain wrong. I mean, they try to convince you all along that all these people came for his ideas and they did but they mostly came because, by now, he has become a huge celebrity and that it is rather sad. Also, I thought it was rather weird to have this huge focus on Michael Moore himself during most of the duration and it is not as if you got to know the guy, no, you just got to see his performance. Furthermore, I’m sorry but, in my opinion, the democracy in the USA is kind of joke, you have just 2 big parties and even though they try to convince you that there is a huge difference between Republicans and Democrats, they are in fact only slightly different. I mean, what kind of democracy is that? Therefore, the whole impact of this effort was rather marginal. Eventually, they got a Democrat in the White House, Barrack Obama, but even though he definitely seems more competent than George W. Bush, his policy follows more or less the same path and there is still a war in Irak going on. To conclude, even though I thought the whole thing was pretty disappointing, there was still some good stuff (it was a good reminder that George W. Bush more or less cheated the first time around and got incredibly lucky the second time around) and it is still worth a look, especially if you are interested in Michael Moore’s work.

6/10