Moore's somewhat scathing documentary attempts to find answers to the question why American culture is steeped in violence and fear. The interviews that range from a bank that gives away guns to Marilyn Manson are baffling, hilarious and mildly revealing.
Moore is stubborn in his ways for answers and arrives at somewhat startling connections, for instance when visits Lockheed Martin, the world's largest weapons manufacturer, which just happens to be located in Littleton, Colorado. Standing before massive ballistic missles, the company's PR man goes on about "anger management classes," blissfully unaware of the sweet irony.
Whatever else you can say about Moore, subtle he is not. With bone-chilling panache, he cuts straight from the cries children of Columbine crying over their dead fellow classmates to a triumphant Charlton Heston, lifting a rifle over his head with the shout "From my cold dead hands!" In a hysterical animated history of America, narrated by a bullet, he links the NRA with the KKK.
I thought the documentary was very intriguing piece of film and was not one too upset his cast of unusually brilliant collection. He stood firmly within the borders of reason and unbiased reckoning.
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