This documentary about the life of John McAfee reminded me of the movie 'The Mosquito Coast'; a maverick, libertarian American travels to central America and becomes very strange. In the case of McAfee, who developed the world's first anti-virus computer software, said "strangeness" involves bizarre sexual practices, a permanent escort of armed guards, and allegations of rape and murder. Yet McAfee returned to the U.S. and an apparent life of contemporary respectability. Nanette's Burnstein's documentary isn't perfect: I don't think much of her interview technique, and she credits a failed bid for the Liberartarian Party of America's nomination for the U.S. presidency with rather more seriousness than it deserves. But it's still a compelling story, whose ending if foreshadowed very early on when we learn of the unconventional practices among the staff of the McAfee company from it's earliest days: those interviewed remember the competition to see who could get laid on their desktops most frequently with fondness, but it seems of a piece with McAfee's later, more disturbing behaviour. Overall, it's a lesson that too much money never really does anyone good; but it's even worse if you get in the way of the person who has it.
... View MoreAt first I was skeptical thinking this was a documentary praising the psychopath John McAfee, however I saw the documentary outlined the facts.A lot of work went into this documentary and I am glad the people in charge were not bought or intimidated off by John.It shows corruption at the highest levels including in Belize, Guatemala and the US as well because in my opinion they could have sent a DNA team down there or pressured Belize to file charges on John, but it goes to show if you are famous and you are US rich, you can get away with murder.The documentary leaves it up to the viewer to make their own conclusions in my opinion John hired someone to kill the neighbor US citizen, John is a psychopath like Charles Manson and until I watched the documentary did not know he was running to become the US president.Overall this is a must watch documentary, no one should have this criminal as their neighbor any of your family members involved with this psycho.
... View MoreThis is a despicably biased piece of cinematic garbage, haphazardly directed by an artless propagandist. Not one moment of this film even portends to be the slightest bit objective or open-minded. It's kind of sad, because somewhere in this series of events it seems that there could be a cogent and compelling narrative, but in the hands of this ham-fisted, half-wit director, all is lost. Reading the email exchange between the director and McAfee (despite being edited by the director) is something akin to watching a chimp play chess against Garry Kasparov. It makes me wonder just how inept she would seem if the unedited exchanges had been included instead. All in all, don't waste your time with this God awful, raging dumpster fire of a "documentary."
... View MoreThis isn't a documentary. I know and love watching documentaries, been doing so for years now. I started out watching Micheal Moore's stuff and branched out into everything under the sun. The biggest problem real documentaries are facing today are films like this one, if you can call this a film. Basically anyone thinks they can make a documentary nowadays because they have a camera, laptop and an idea for a cool title. And once someone's watches these so-called "documentaries", they'll cringe at the idea of wasting 2 hours of their time watching another documentary. These random 2 hour over-glorified slideshows are killing the art of documentary films. The market has been oversaturated thanks to lame films like this and now real, I repeat REAL DOCUMENTARIES with an actual message or story to tell are getting thrown under the bus because of hipsters like this director who random cut and paste clips together and call it a day, and are doing so just for a paycheck. This is not a film, it is basically 2 hours of some chick p!ssed off at John McAfee because he would not give her an interview for her lame slideshow of a movie. She literally interviews random people (in serious need of money) and has them repeat the same story about John McAfee. They come off as coached. During the interviews they're giving answers like "yah" and "sure." When the director has to finally go somewhere to supposedly verify something, she chickens out because she claims it is too dangerous. It is like a bad high school project, not only half-piped and fake but lacking of much effort. Whatever she was paid to do this, I can tell you she not only pocketed most of the production money but got a free trip out of it. I'm giving it 2 stars because it was kind of funny to hear her keep complaining about John McAfee refusing to give her an interview. It probably forced her to waste more money on paying off locals for bogus interviews. This wannabe documentary isn't worth your time.
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