Performance Notes

The Film Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? Certificate 12A General release

Morgan Spurlock, having put McDonald's on trial in Super Size Me, sets himself another quest: tracking down the whereabouts of the world's most wanted man. The American everyman takes in Egypt, Afghanistan, Palestine and Saudi Arabia in his one-man mission to "catch" Bin Laden, and also gauge Middle Eastern opinion on the "war on terror".

"Pinballing through the Arab world equipped only with a camera and a genial waggishness, his movie evolves less as a journalistic tour d'horizon than a series of random insights into the Middle Eastern mindset. Most of his interviewees don't actively hate the US, they just want a peaceful life. The result is a wry, good- natured and rather flip film." Robert Hanks

"A frustratingly soft documentary that would sooner teach the world to sing than get to the bottom of the Bin Laden enigma." empire"[This] is socio-politics for dummies. It's a staggeringly imbecilic approach to a serious subject. It's mawkishly sentimental and fundamentally untrustworthy." the times"The travelogue is so banal and fluffy, it would make Judith Chalmers vomit into her handbag... This is the sort of film that gives glib, narcissistic, intellectually impoverished navel-gazing a bad name." new statesman"What Spurlock demonstrates here - and full credit to Michael Moore - is how hard it is to combine popular style with proper intent." time out

Copyright c 2008 Independent Newspapers UK Limited. All rights owned or operated by The Independent.
Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company. All rights Reserved.