Review of McLibel

McLibel (2005)
3/10
Lacking in direction, an orgy of activist idealism
1 January 2010
This movie is painful to watch. The two activists come across as petulant children railing against practically every injustice in the world that they can think of.

The documentary fails to present a coherent argument. It's all over the map - in one minute they're complaining that killing chickens by beheading them isn't the most humane way to do it (but is that really true? they don't cover any alternatives) and in the next moment they're complaining that McDonald's is responsible for rain forest destruction (but they don't even say why! I guess because McDonald's uses paper? But so does every other company on earth).

This film could have been better with more facts about the UK legal angle and much less anti-corporation propaganda.

In trying to figure out what the concluding message of the film was, all I could come up with is that it showed what a waste of resources their case was and how pointless this all was. All it really did was feed millions of dollars to lawyers. But the fact that tying up the courts like this only benefits the lawyers is not really an interesting fact or anything new.
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