Review of Making a Killing: Guns, Greed and the NRA (2016) by Torion O — 24 Aug 2016

Like all good causes there's the inevitable step overboard that dilutes the message. This movie is 75% that step, the other 25% reasonable discourse. Most of that 25% is spent on irrelevancies in victims' personal lives.

The problem with the movie is, it's a mix between a drama and a documentary. It could've been one or the other and the message would've been better conveyed, though the random statistics appearing in trendy font throughout the movie confuses the moments with the drama, and vice versa.

The combination gives the impression the creators were trying too hard and it shows with the rushed stats having to be tacked on to the random stories. The stats aren't even explained, no logistics or correlational studies, no nothing that can substantiate the WHY the statistics are important.

The stats shown are also primarily about the income of big gun sellers, the NRA, and NRA members, which aren't at all relevant to how people die because of guns. It gives the impression that the creators are wanting to trick audience members into thinking that they are all conspiring with each other by paying each other and supporting each other, as if that's a bad thing.

The NRA in general is painted as this evil organization, and yet there was literally no reason why they were bad except that the movie said they were so then they must be bad. Anyway, the primary legislation that this movie didn't and should've focused on are background checks and purchasing limits.