A good movie

Since I really loved ‘Bowling for Columbine’, I was really eager to check Michael Moore’s following directing effort. From a box-office point of view, this movie was a huge success. Indeed, it was the first ever documentary to cross the $100 million mark in the United States (it might still be the most successful documentary ever made but I’m not really sure about this). In fact, this tremendous success was in fact one of the main issues with this flick. Indeed, ever since ‘Bowling for Columbine’ became such a huge critical success (completely deserved in my opinion), Michael Moore pretty much became a superstar and a brend and that’s more the reason why the US audience rushed to see this flick. Of course, they were interested by the topic but if some obscure director would have made it, would it have been so successful? I highly doubt it. I mean, it remains an interesting flick with some very intriguing ideas and theories but it was less sharp than ‘Bowling…’ and, like I just pointed out before, Michael Moore put to much focus on himself. Sure, he is quite smart and often quite funny but he should focus more on the topic at hand. Still, even though I don’t think it was great, I still think it was pretty good though and it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in Michael Moore’s work.

7/10