Review of Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) by Kevin D — 22 Jun 2010

This movie annoyed right from the beginning. I love how he makes it seem like Al Gore is the second coming even though nobody knows for sure how he would have fared out had he been president. Moore makes Gore out to be a saint and Moore creates a ludicrous conspiracy about Fox News and George Bush.

Michael Moore is so annoyingly biased with the information he uses. He always uses the information he gets in his favor when the devil's advocate of his points are glaringly obvious. But he's out to send his own message so he can say whatever he wants, he has that right.

I'm not going to lie, this movie can sometimes be convincing, educational, and funny. Unfortunately (for the healthcare bill *inside joke*) this movie isn't all that engaging. At times it just seems like a long winded sequence of never ending interviews that beat a dead horse.

During parts of this movie I would just daydream and go off into la-la land. With that being said, it's not as boring as Capitalism. In addition, the movie seems sloppily directed at times. Some shots just look bad and Moore's use of music can sometimes be awkward.

For instance, he likes to start playing and ending music without fading them in and out. He sometimes only plays music excerpts for less than 5 seconds when you expect the song to playing for an extended period of time.

It just appeared to be awkward to me. Nonetheless, this movie does offer some really powerful moments when it profiles people who lost family members in Iraq and when it covers war protesters. The ending of this movie was also one of the funniest I've seen in recent memory.

Overall, this movie doesn't really add up to much due to Moore's obvious bias and misuse of facts. Furthermore, I felt dirty at times while watching this movie because of how un-American it felt.

This obviously wasn't as easy a topic a movie to film compared to Bowling For Columbine because the latter film had an enemy that almost everyone could agree on (guns) while this one was much more politically inspired and it relied a lot on heresy.

I'm not saying that I support George Bush or the Iraq War since I don't know enough information on either to be fair. I'm just saying that with the information I know, Michael Moore was not fair or logical, for the most part, in the points he made in this movie.