This is a mocumentary that tries to present itself as a real
documentary. It genuinely wanted to fool people at the time, even while
it all was obviously fake, which makes this a bit of an annoying movie
experience at times.
Quite frankly I really can't see how anyone could every think that this
was a real documentary. The acting by the film-makers, who all play
themselves, is absolutely horrendous and the movie too often features
some ridicules moments in it. It just didn't ever worked for me as
anything fun to watch, even though it was supposed to be sort of
tongue-in-cheek.
Perhaps this simply was fun little project to do for Werner Herzog and
Zak Penn but it's lacking a bit of bite and a point to it. It could had
made some sort of interesting statement about truth and fiction in
movies and our perception of it but it basically does little to nothing
with this concept. It's not provoking, it's not fun enough. In my
opinion it's nothing more but a failed experiment.
Not like I hated watching this movie but it was simply lacking a good
point to it all and there is no way that I'll ever be seeing it again.
5/10
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