Summary
As someone who's going to comment on the film after actually having seen it, I've got to say I've got mixed feelings. Yeah, it's meticulously made (by British director Gabriel Range), but the fauxdoc style is hardly groundbreaking (Paul Greengrass of United 93 is the current master of the form) and, frankly, so many pseudo-documentaries are being made these days (Brothers of the Head, Bloody Sunday, the latest project by anyone even marginally associated with Christopher Guest), one wonders if it's an easy, creative-crutch genre within which to work. Range's film is ferociously anti-[George W. Bush]. But to criticize it for suggesting President Bush ignores civil protest or that the PATRIOT Act undermines certain Constitutional guarantees, would be like a blind person criticizing the sighted for looking in a different direction.
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Bush Whacked
While the majority of polls tell us more than 60 percent of Americans would like to see George Bush leave the White House, I'd like to think that they'd prefer it not to be via hearse.
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