6/10
great message, but it's a one-man show and hit or miss (more hit than miss)
5 November 2016
Basically a glorified stand up special/one-man show that's more about bringing people to Clinton than bashing Trump (there's *some* of that, but nowhere near what you might expect). Sometimes it's funny, other times not. The thing that bothered me the most was that some of the editing - from the cut always to the audience to the occasional (I think ADR) - was jarring. I suspect some choices came down to the fact that Moore wrote, directed and produced this piece mere *weeks* before he surprise-premiered it at the IFC Center in New York city (and iTunes, I think), so if it occasionally seems technically rushed that might be why.

The other criticism that I lay against it is that unlike Moore when he's really firing on his cylinders - Roger & Me, Fahrenheit 9/11, Where to Invade Next - his films can last past years, decades even, because they reflect the time they were set in, look at what went on (re, Flynt, Bush, America's problems at large), and go simply "What the f***?" In this case it's fine for the immediate now, but whoever is president will make it rather dated, albeit the idea that this will be a cautionary tale (to put it mildly) for the people who vote in Trump in the unlikely event he's president is a righteous cause for a satirist/social commentator like Moore.

So, if you're set on seeing it anyway, check it out. For the uninitiated, wait for when it ends up being like free on VOD or something. It's a minor work ala Slacker Uprising or The Big One, though it's certainly not all bad.
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