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Ally P @APro2 Jun 15 The director, Charlie Minn, was absolutely terrible. It’s as if he was pretending to be an investigative journalist. He kept trying to have these "gotcha" moments instead of just telling the story. Really awful interviewing and even worse filmmaking. The on screen texts and directors not at the end were ridiculous. It’s a really compelling story about a terrible tragedy. But Charlie’s portrayal of it was so poorly done. See more Roy L. @SerenityNow Jun 10 Gruesome, graphic display of victims, lots of biased finger pointing at police. Not a documentary. Don’t let someone profit off the victims and don’t traumatize yourself by watching it. See more Angelina M. @RT82769848 May 11 Very graphic documentary and very good. People are complaining that “the director is making them revisit the event” but every documentary does that. They obviously approved to be on camera and questioned. And many people are complaining about the director making the cops guilty, but the cops are obviously speaking bs. Saying that they didn’t think people were getting murdered but there was FIVE people laying in front of the entrance… I recommend this movies for documentary lovers See more Jaudene T @Jaaah18 Apr 10 If I could rate 0 stars for this controversial "documentary" (very loose definition), I would. The director clearly had an agenda he was trying to push onto the audience by blaming the tragedy on the police instead of the perpetrator. It makes me sick to think that this man made profit over the victims and their families, especially with the use of actual footage from the crime scene. We got more close up and repetitive scenes of the deceased then information about them and their lives. Minn conducted all the interviews himself. Not only was he re-traumatising the victims who had survived, but he was also actively trying to guilt-trip the officers to the point where it felt more like interrogations than interviews. This is this purest definition grief porn in media. It was so terrible that I made an account just so I could post this review. Please do your own research and do not watch this film. See more Teriyakki T @RT98704036 Aug 28 The low ratings this film received from a handful of people, seem undeserved and bias, all echoing the same sentiment. I ended up watching this film twice within a 2-year period and both times can say this film is worth the watch. It was excellent albeit graphic and sad. During the film, you are introduced to a video not meant for public consumption which allows for a unique fly on the wall experience of an interrupted life: a family caught midstream enjoying an affordable meal, minimum wage workers engaged in food prep before senselessly being cut down. I thought the scene where an individual was casually walking around the massacre and repeatedly calling out the deceased individuals he came across as, “Male, Mexican”…”Female, Mexican…” without an ounce of compassion, seemed odd since these individuals were once living human beings, someone’s sister, daughter, dad, etc., but maybe that was the nature of the job he was tasked with. I think the director did a good job. Both, top critic Gary Goldstein of the Los Angeles Times and a viewer gave this documentary high ratings. I’m giving it one too not only because I believe it deserves it, but because I feel the low ratings are not a true reflection of the merit of this film. I don’t think the police featured in this documentary, whose job it is to serve and protect, need defending. Yes, it was 1984 and the technology wasn’t there as it today, but the top brass said that traffic was a factor? Since when do police not know how to control traffic in an emergency? The team SWAT commander also said his beeper hadn’t been working for half an hour during the semi-annual event he was attending, and the police officer who initially responded to the scene was given the wrong address. To know the facts, that there were 175 police surrounding the building while the active shooter shot people inside and outside for 77 minutes... It’s documented that they had riot gear in the 1960s right? Makes me wonder why they didn’t just rush in with tear gas or something and take the shooter out sooner. I wonder if the perpetrator were black and the guests white, if things would have been handled differently by the police? I personally know many individuals who are in law enforcement, and like some featured in this film, are very dedicated, respectful and compassionate. So, instead of being blindly influenced by a few reviews, you have to form your own judgement by watching this with an open mind. See more Kathleen l @RT02181367 Aug 18 Absolutely heartbreaking event that was extremely difficult to watch. I dont think the constant footage of the victims laying where they fell , obviously dead ,was necessary to tell the story. Imagery including dead children ,1 still an infant was totally tasteless + obviously chosen by the director ( if you can call him a director) for shock factor. I'm 100% in disagreement with the decision to release that footage to " Charlie Minn" bcos he couldn't have been more disrespectful to the victims of he'd tried !!! He was also so disrespectful to the police in his interviews + his line of questioning was totally out of order !! To say he has an issue with the police is an understatement + to try + place guilt on the police when it lies 100% on the gunman is absolutely disgusting!!! How this idiot ever got access to the extremely graphic footage from inside + outside the building is so disturbing to me so I can only imagine how distraught family members would have been seeing their dead loved 1's included in this documentary + I'm sure he didn't ask for their permission beforehand, going by his total disrespect for everything + every1 else he chose to include. That's if you can call it a documentary, appears more like an amateur school project made by high-schoolers with the head boy constantly demanding that he's got more screen time than anyone else , including the victims he's supposedly interviewing. This should never made it to air with , the footage included, the disrespectful police interviews + police shaming as well as " The shitty director " having so much screen time but most of all his biased point of view where it's soooh obvious to anyone watching that he has a HUGE issue with police bcos he blames the deaths on police rather than on the lunatic who took so many lives !!! Absolutely SHAMEFUL!!!!! See more Read all reviews

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