Published on Jun 11, 2016
Here's what England's Daily Telegraph has to sayWhere to Invade Next is Michael Moore at his most audacious
If superhero franchises are only as good as their presiding villain, you could argue Michael Moore’s career as a tub-thumping celluloid vigilante essentially ceased with the end of the Bush era. Under Obama, his raison d’être has been a lot less obvious, which is possibly why he hasn’t made a film in six years: his last was 2009’s underwhelming Capitalism: A Love Story.
It’s significant that Moore spends the vast majority of his new film tramping around off US soil. The title, Where to Invade Next, sets us up for a gotcha – it’s obviously to be assumed we’re in for a broadside about US foreign policy, and a jokey prologue inside the Pentagon is heading in that direction.
But Moore’s idea, after a succession of unsuccessful wars, is positing himself as an invasionary force of one – personally visiting a series of countries, mostly inside Europe, planting a US flag, and then taking all their best ideas away with him. . ."
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