Director: Davis Guggenheim
Year: 2006
Al Gore is not a good subject for a documentary... the strong point here is the information contained in his powerpoint... but it's a huge mistake for a documentarian to make a slick, self-glamorizing politician who is now making a living off of telling us about global warming... the black and white sap story about Gore replete with shots of him staring concernedly at his lap top does not constitute an interesting story, nor a riveting investigation into the facts of global warming... cut Al Gore out, ditch the power point, but do your own in-depth fact finding and interviews with credible sources (i.e. scientists, not politicians) and you'll have yourself a good documentary...
Unfortunately I think Davis Guggenheim is a lazy director, and just because he's helmed two big zeitgeist subjects for his two documentaries, does not mean he's done them adequate justice... so far very unimpressed with his abilities as a documentarian.
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