At the end of the movie, the audience clapped. I have never before been to a film where the audience clapped at the end of the film. But then I expected this. After all...
I try not to get personal in my reviews except for spot marked "Personal Comments." However, I just couldn't help it this time.
I was born a Canadian, I am going to die a Canadian, and I going to live out my life in Canada. Thank GOD I don't live in the US where they send boys off to die in some other country for oil.
In 2000, bush should never have won the election. Thousands of votes cast for Gore were disqualified for various reasons in the state of Florida, bush's brother's state. How convenient.
So now he's president. He still has all the oil profits from all of his oil companies, all funded by the Saudi's.
bush is soooo wrapped up in his ties with the Saudi's that it's too late for him to get out. They own 7% of coporate America. 7%. Un-****ing believable.
Then comes 9/11. On that morning, bush is reading a story to some Florida school children. He knows that the country is under attack, yet he does NOTHING.
bush's best friend controls the money for bin-ladden's family in Texas. Dick Chaney was the former CEO of Halliburton, a company playing a BIG role in Iraq. And in the middle of the fighting, major companies are fighting over who gets to help rebuild Iraq.
At one point in the film, Michael Moore is standing across the street from the Saudi Arabian embassy, right by the Watergate hotel, and another corporate building, the "three pillars of American history," as calls them. Only moments later, the Secret Service approach Moore, asking what he is doing. He tells them he is filming a documentary. But they already knew that... how strange. "This isn't normal for you guys, is it?" Moore questions, about them being around the Saudi embassy. "No, it is not," one of the S.S. reply's back. Moore asks them, in reference to the Saudi's and their embassy, "So do they give you any trouble?" "No comment," they reply. "I'll take that as a yes then," says Moore.
To sum up the film, look at this:
Everything goes around and around in a big circle: bush's agenda > iraq > oil > Saudi's > oil > investment in America > American economy + > investment in iraq > bush's agenda.
Roger Ebert was right:
This is the best film of the year. Hands Down. Although I haven't yet seen The Passion of the Christ. This film should be nominated for AT LEAST Best Picture and Best Documentary Oscars. If it is not, then we know whose side the A.M.P.A.S. is on, don't we?
Moore knows how to balance humour and seriousness in his films to create a work of art. But even when the film slowed own, I was totally engrossed. I mean, I couldn't look away. Not for one minute.
In my own way, I am very political. I know when I been dupped. At first I belived what bush was saying. get rid of saddam; "He's bad!" "A terrorist!" "He's killed people!" Sure, he did kill people, but not one single American. bush was wrong to go into iraq, and he is going to pay for in the next election. I hated Bush almost from the day he was wrongfully elected.
This film is rated "R" (14A in Canada) and can't be viewed by the one chunk of the population that actually needs to see the film the most. Why? Too influential for the establishment to handle? There is absolutley nothing in this film that anyone over 14 can handle. What, you never seen a dead body before???
Plot: 
Simply amazing. Breathtaking.
Visual Effects:
Even though most of the film is pieced together from old news clips, the way the film is edited makes up for the virtual lack of visual effects and cinematography.
Sound:
Every song used in the film is placed in such away that it enhances the mood of the scene it is in and the message that he is trying to get across to the audience. This is successfully achieved many times throughout the entire film.
Character Development:
The george bush character is one that cannot change. No one in the film can change. However, the characters change our perceptions of them from the time we enter the theater to the time we leave, and they successfully do change our views of them.
Atmosphere:
Moore sucks you in from the word go and you don't take your eyes off the screen for the entire 1 hour and 12 minutes.
Realism:
The best part of this film is that it's all true.
OF COURSE, Michael Moor bent the facts to suit the way HE felt they should go. He never does tell the OTHER side of the story, but that is all forgiven.
Warren’s Rating:
I have given this film my highest rating... EVER. It's like I said earlier, this is the best film I have ever seen.
11/10 Is the movie worth your time to watch?
26-06-04
