Review of Where to Invade Next (2015) by Marc5477 — 14 Jul 2016

Previous movies were better thought out. This one felt more like a money grab because a lot of the ideas were not well thought out nor investigated. For instance, the idea of women controlling banking is asinine because a simple review of failed banks would show that women led banks fell just as often as male led banks. The points about the death penalty are equally bad because they make it sound like we kill most of our inmates when in reality very few people are executed every year and their crimes are generally so heinous that if they were presented, even the nay-sayers would want to execute them. There were some good points made in the film such as those on education but they missed the mark when interviewees started rambling about "culture" and "poetry." These are not the things that make a great nation, and they never were, especially not culture.

The reality of life is that humanity as a whole, evolves around science and always has (not kings, the rich, or religion). In the old days it was simpler stuff like irrigation and print, later it was medicine and industrialization and today its all about tech and automation. Those are the things that matter in education and those are what push a country forward (and our entire species). But instead he wasted the interviews on meaningless drivel like pop music and good times, which incidentally were all made possible today, by science. When it comes to education you have to strike a balance between growth and practicality. I agree the homework in this country is practically worthless, but I disagree with not giving any assignments at all. Which brings me to the crux of the problem with his message about what is important in leadership and education... what happens if these people are faced with a hostile enemy like the Islamic Brotherhood? The answer is they will all fail because reality is that it will happen and when it does, these countries will not be able to defend themselves and their people will suffer greatly for it. I am not saying we should keep doing what we are doing with our military and our corrupt leadership and their corporate masters, but again, there needs to be some balance and that balance is not what these countries have achieved, nor has it been achieved here in the USA.

Overall, this was not a good movie because again, it was not well thought out. I still enjoyed some parts here and there and certainly I would love to move to a country with more vacation time and respect for workers and better k-12 education but the rest of the film fell flat. Again, his older movies were better.