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Rating:  - Caution
Thankfully, I borrowed this from a friend. Do not waste your money on this unless, perhaps, you have an affinity for Michael Moore-type garbage. I will not waste my time with an in-depth review. Caveat Emptor.
Rating:  - Worth reading
I have been trying to read books that might give some insight into what the candidates are like in the upcoming election. I am convinced both are flawed but McCain is our only choice. The other lacks knowledge and experience and is totally unknown. He made one good speech but has trouble answering questions he should have thought through before entering the contest. Ruby Freeman
Rating:  - Disappointing
I had high hopes for this documentary, because it's thesis is exactly right: as President Eisenhower feared, the United States has been hijacked by a military-industrial complex that has squandered its immense wealth on weapons systems, to the detriment of a good society.
Unfortunately, the film is a disappointing mish-mash of contemporary interviews and historical footage, incoherently told. Lacking a narrarator, who might have lended context and details, the film instead lurches from interview to interview -- a conservative here, a liberal there, and, look, here's Eisenhower's actual granddaughter! -- striving for "balance" but sacrificing intelligence.
I yearned for detail: some documentary evidence of the alliance between government and industry, or a probing look at just one of the multitude of unnecessary weapons systems that the Pentagon has foisted on Congress, or even simply a chart that illustrates how our military spending drawfs our spending on the common good, such as education. Details on the Halliburton scandal, for example, would have been especially compelling and illustrative. These topics are only superficially discussed by those interviewed. There is no real insight. Perhaps fearing that they would bore with too much detail, the filmmakers aim only for effect.
To be sure, the film does have some interesting emotional turns -- primarily a profile of 9/11 victim's father who was duped by President Bush's deceptive attempt to tie Iraq to 9/11. Though revelatory in an emotional way, the profile belongs in a different documentary and illustrates the film's essential weakness: a preference for mood over intelligence, in a film that absolutely requires the latter.
Rating: - Every School Kid Should See this Movie and Discuss it
This movie answers the question, "Why don't the Democrats ask tough questions of the Bush Administration". The answer is one word.. Jobs. The Industrial Military Machine in the United States is a tax subsidized $750,000,000,000 enterprise, let me repeat, 750 Billion dollar a year enterprise. And they have an average 25% profit margin, WOW. The War Machine has designed it's manufacturing chain that components are built in every state. Each elected official in Congress has a duty to bring back jobs to their districts. Otherwise they will not get re-elected.
The next question, How can we move monies from the Industrial War Machine into Education, and research and development of Clean Alternative Energy Sources to make our country self-reliant and secure.
-Tom
Rating: - Excelent movie
It is a very well written documentary. Some of the interviewees are great minds of USA. This work not only hits Bush, as many others documentaries do, but also criticizes all of the exterior relations of USA.
The theme is one of the most important of these times: US War. Where Globalization is just a nice word for Imperialism. As with global warning, it seems that we are loosing our fight agains it. Even the presidents of USA seem to be pupets of this miltary machine.
Great audiovisual material, great interviews, great final message, great movie.
Americans have to do something.
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