Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Aaron Russo, Sherry Peel Jackson, Irwin Schiff, Dave Champion, Joe Banister
A thought-provoking clarion call which concludes that America, instead of being by the people and for the people is, in truth, an oppressive, exploitative Big Brother where government and corporations reign supreme.
repetitive and completely self-serving, with Russo making a serious of specious arguments that are largely laughed at by his serious subjects
There is food for thought here. But Russo loses his grasp on the material once he expands his focus.
If Russo really wanted to attract an audience, he should have called this: Why You Don't Have To Pay Taxes! Now that's a title that would get people in the seats.
Russo comes off as a paranoid ranter, the movie equivalent of the street-corner pamphleteer with tinfoil in his hat to keep out the gamma rays.
Russo's brand of libertarianism is at best naive and at worst tin-foil-hat crazy.
The catch is the IRS doesn't care and will seize all your property and possibly throw you in jail if you refuse to pay.Talk about a buzzkill.
If it's true, we're all due a monumental refund; if not, Russo and his cohorts may want to start looking for write-offs.
Essentially the filmmaking equivalent of an enraged blog on the Web -- pointed and provocative, but not exactly a comprehensive source for the issues it addresses.
Top Critic Even the staunchest and most forgiving of Libertarians would have to admit that this film comes up quite short.
While the film -- which Russo produced, directed, edited and wrote -- has some fascinating and compelling arguments, it quickly assumes the tone of an angry diatribe rather than a well-reasoned political discussion.
Top Critic Russo feels his direction of this film is a brave, seditious deed. The audience I was surrounded by at an advance screening agreed.
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This movie is so humorless that it makes you wax nostalgic for the good old days when Michael Moore was sticking it to the man.
Russo is a clearly a healthy minded skeptic who tries to get both sides of the story.
Filmmaking lapses aside, this is an impassioned and generally persuasive film that rings all too eerily true.
Top Critic If America: From Freedom to Fascism is right only 10 percent of the time, we're in big trouble.
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