June 25, 2004
Dog Eat Dog
Documentary
DVD
B-
Although this movie starts out very well, with a look at the 2000 Presidential Election and some of the events leading up to September 11, 2001, I don't think it sustains that promising beginning. Too often this Michael Moore movie gets sidetracked into minutiae, like exactly what the ties of money and friendship were between the Bush family and the Bin Laden family. (Both Presidents Bush, as well as Clinton, appear here, as they did in Bowling for Columbine.) I also felt that it could've done more with the subject handled in Columbine of how the government and the news media play on Americans' fears for their own profit. The movie is nonetheless worth a look, revisiting that time that we're still dealing with the consequences of, a dozen years or more later. And I will say that Moore's ego seems less out of control than in the previous film; he's better able to step back and let others tell their stories.
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