Movie Reviews for Why We Fight

Why We Fight

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Movie Reviews of Why We Fight

Movie Review: One of the Best Documentaries Ever
Summary: 5 Stars

I have never written a review of a book or film on Amazon before, but I was compelled to do so by this film. "Why We Fight" may be the best documentary I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot of them. It is certainly one of the best.

It is extremely well put together, and I may have never seen a film of any genre organized so well.

Whether I agree or disagree (usually code words for "like" or "dislike") with the message of the film, the facts are the facts, and they don't change simply because of how we (or I) feel about them.

Everything analytical I would say about this film has already been written in the other 5 star reviews listed below -- and written much more clearly than I could ever do -- so I won't attempt to repeat any of it.

Movie Review: Critical message!
Summary: 5 Stars

Hope as many people as possible view this film, which presents patriotic reasons why we should reduce reliance on military industrial complex. Great anti war film.

Movie Review: Another un-proven conspiracy theory
Summary: 2 Stars

The film starts with the President Eisenhower's warning that the industrial military complex will turn America in a quasi-military dictatorship. The filmmakers failed to prove that, and worse than that, they even failed to stay focused on one premise. While I don't buy this conspiracy, I really tried to appreciate the film for its efforts, but I found myself doing time after 20 minutes. The film is about everything, and therefore about nothing. A retired NYPD officer is invoked as a character. The man lost his son at 9/11 and bids revenge on the Iraq. At one point he gets enlighted and figures that Al Quid is not coming from Iraq. And this is supposed to demonstrate that the industrial military complex is running the country? Call me dull but I just didn't get it. Well, in all fairness, the movie ends with the initial question "Why we fight?" This time the answer comes from a retired and disgruntled US Airforce lady officer. "Because not enough people like me quit fighting." And that is what we learned after 90.

While looking for this film, I stumbled on "The World Without US" - a documentary similar in topic. After checking out the trailer at the film website, I got the DVD and it was quite good. It takes the premise of "Why we fight" a step farther by asking, what would happen should the US withdraw its military completely from the world? Answering a hypothetical question is hard, for any author and filmmaker, however this movie did, weather you agree with the answer or not. Check it out also.
The World Without US - With Niall Ferguson

Movie Review: Sad movie because its true
Summary: 5 Stars

This documentary talks about the reasons we go to war. It's not about oil but for a whole list of reasons that this movie explains. It's totally balanced and shows every side of the problem. We have dug ourselves into a ditch and grown so used to it that it now looks alien to think how life is outside of that ditch.