Average Rating: 4.9/10
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Fresh: 39 | Rotten: 65
Morgan Sprulock's doc offers occasional insights but gets bogged down by the director/subject's gimmicky schtick.
Average Rating: 4.5/10
Critic Reviews: 30
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 21
Morgan Sprulock's doc offers occasional insights but gets bogged down by the director/subject's gimmicky schtick.
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With no military experience, knowledge or expertise, filmmaker Morgan Spurlock sets off to do what the CIA, FBI and countless bounty hunters have failed to do: find the world's most wanted man. Why take on such a seemingly impossible mission? Simple--he wants to make the world safe for his soon to be born child. But, before he finds Osama bin Laden, he first needs to learn where he came from, what makes him tick, and most importantly, what exactly created bin Laden to begin with. Following bin
Apr 18, 2008 Wide
Aug 26, 2008
$0.3M
The Weinstein Company
All Critics (106) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (43) | Rotten (65) | DVD (6)
Complicated global problems require something a bit more challenging than this.
Morgan Spurlock is a living, breathing cautionary tale. Take a good, long look, kids: This is what happens when society validates really annoying people.
A superficial primer for people who aren't likely to go see it in the first place.
The film does offer a glimmer of hope that behind all the bellowing by politicians and thugs, there are millions of people in the Middle East who simply yearn for peace.
Where in the world is Morgan Spurlock's head? Occasionally, during this exasperating and goofy documentary, it seems squarely on his shoulders. Most of the time, however, it's firmly lodged up another part of his anatomy.
In his first film since Super Size Me, Spurlock tells you virtually nothing you didn't already know -- and, what's more, he does it with catchy videogame graphics and faux-naive man-on-the-street interviews that make Michael Moore look like Chet Huntley.
Shrinks the world situation to fit the mood of America and gets away with it. Candy-coated reality? Yankee vanity? Maybe so. But the sunniness is welcome.
Makes Michael Moore look like Marcel Ophüls
Super Size Me guy heads to the Middle East.
There is room for a tough, journalistic documentary presented by someone who really did want to know the answer. But this isn't it.
Spurlock's disarming, slightly goofy demeanor gets him out of situations that might mean trouble for anyone else. His films are always fun and even illuminating to watch.
This film finds him becoming more sentimental, perhaps because of his new domesticity, but the film is still consistently entertaining.
What makes it all work is how honest and grounded Spurlock is.
Of course it's outrageous: it's supposed to be.
Woefully small-scale, often misguided but never disingenuous.
Morgan goes out into the big bad, wide world as the naive and innocent everyman, asking the question of the title, but actually posing more complex issues - which address the human condition.
Not as good as SUPER SIZE ME, but Spurlock does a good job at least trying to hunt down "OBL", as he refers to bin Laden in this film. Unfortunately, it's a waste of time to watch the film today, since "OBL" is dead.
June 14, 2011Super Reviewer
I have no comment! I also have absolutely no idea why I give it 3 stars, because this movie is very funny, but the plot is... well, I don't even know if it is fresh! This is soo weird!
January 26, 2010Super Reviewer
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