The secret’s out: yes, Michael Moore has a new film (his first since 2009’s Capitalism: A Love Story), and it is — what else! — a document of things America has been doing poorly. If Where to Invade Next can separate itself from his well-known approach, it’s through a shotgun-spray approach. This isn’t just, say, gun control or health care or financial institutions or the current Presidential administration — this is education, working environments, prisons, banks, etc. It’s also what makes the movie an unconvincing mishmash of suggestions and implications, one alternately stimulating for what it could help progress and frustrating for how it occludes good intentions with questions of authenticity.
Or so I thought upon seeing it at this year’s New York Film Festival; you, on the other hand, can decide for yourself in only a few weeks’ time. The newly formed IMG Films will be releasing Invade before year’s end, and a trailer — one already putting fists up, e.g. “Get ready for the movie that is so dangerous, the powers that be don’t want you to see.” Along with being grammatically clunky: what? Who is saying this? — has arrived. Watching it, you’ll soon know whether or not you want to make time for the thing.
Watch it below (via Yahoo!):
Synopsis:
The United States’ long history of invading countries and pushing agendas has produced results that are, to say the least, mixed. What if the US could do a better job at invading? That’s the premise for this film, which sends Moore on an epic journey.
Where to Invade Next will enter a limited release on December 23.