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08/07/08
Fast Food Nation (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 134
Fresh: 68
Rotten:66
Average Rating: 5.8/10
Consensus: Despite some fine performances and memorable scenes, Fast Food Nation is more effective as Eric Schlosser's eye-opening non-fiction book than as Richard Linklater's fictionalized, mostly punchless movie.
Synopsis: When it was published in 2001, Fast Food Nation quickly became a New York Times bestseller, with its no-holds-barred, non-fiction exploration of "the dark side of the All-American meal." The big screen version FAST FOOD NATION is a... [More]
Starring: Greg Kinnear, Bruce Willis, Paul Dano, Ethan Hawke
Director: Richard Linklater
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Reviews for Fast Food Nation
This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table.
05/05/08
The large cast is uniformly excellent and the film has been designed to stir the pot ... Unfortunately, audiences don't seem to be responding. Global warming is the hot button issue but our food supply and its contamination is just as important.
07/14/07
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05/12/07
Engaging, thought-provoking and sharply written, this is an impressively directed drama with superb performances from its talented ensemble cast.
05/04/07
Though it may well make you vow never to eat a burger again, the film never really holds itself together.
05/04/07
Certainly food for thought then, just a shame the characters aren’t as fully-fleshed.
05/04/07
The stories lack shape, and the procession of famous faces detracts from the low-key, realist tone.
05/04/07
Top Critic Intelligent and radical, this meaty exposé of corporate greed offers plenty to chew on.
05/04/07
This movie has taken a firebrand book and turned it into a whingeing piece of defeatism.
05/04/07
Not as hard-hitting and incisive as it could have been but a relatively thoughtful and thought-provoking film nonetheless.
05/04/07
A gross and engrossing attempt to humanise a hot-button subject, using a star-sprinkled cast to reveal some unpalatable truths.
05/04/07
Rather like a fungus-based meat substitute, this film feels as though it's good for you, but actually there are few lasting benefits.
05/01/07
If the word 'tasteless' can be applied to a film in the most positive sense, that film is surely the pro-animal activist eco-drama, Fast Food Nation.
04/21/07
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