This is the best entry in the entire "Zeitgiest" series and it's also one of my favorite documentaries ever made! I generally don't review documentaries, but this was an exception given that it's possibly the most voted on direct to video movie series ever created! I really did enjoy this because it really focused on the importance of the individual. This is also the longest documentary I've ever seen! It was great that it was very organized and divided into four different parts. I am also so glad that it didn't reference those stupid 911 conspiracy theories at all. This is a truly irrational idea that no one should support.This movie actually seemed to show off a much more positive aspect of religion. Well, it still doesn't quite support it, but it does mention some religious groups who would rather go to jail than go to war. The film's most important part is probably when it reveals what the biggest killer of all is. After mentioning some of history's worst dictators, it mentions how poverty is the most dangerous thing to the most people. Then again, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong did in fact directly cause famines and deaths of starvation. Well, I'd probably have to do more research.We first see what it is that makes people evil. It argues the case that it's something that isn't natural. It's great to learn more about the economy. It makes you realize what the true value of money is and how our society is functioning. We realize that there are certain things that everyone must do no matter what your ideals are. You could consider nature a dictatorship as it dictates you must obey the laws of science and need certain things to survive. With the increasing population, these things will always will a problem. I don't always agree with these films, but I found this to be the best of them all. Seeing as how Donald Trump is becoming President, we need to be united more so than ever now. Hey, they could probably make a fourth movie now. ****

What to say about this bizarre "documentary" (read: technocratic propaganda) except that when it finished my skin crawled and I almost wept for the ignorance of history that permeates nearly every minute of this over-dramatic, hyperbolic and misleading hysteria.It is quite incredible to me how human beings can be sucked in again and again to the same tried-and-failed arguments and pseudo-intellectual fallacies that have already been shown to result in misery and suffering. Oh, but maybe this time the elimination of individuality, meritocracy and fruitful hierarchy will be different! Tell that to the millions of victims of communism throughout history - it'll be different this time, because machines! Yes, that is really the crux of the entire movie, and it made my blood run cold. To see the rating this has received - to see so many ignorant fools wilfully celebrating the surrender of their own freedom in the name of 'the greater good' has made me quite depressed. Are people seriously so envious of others, so afraid of not having the whitest picket fence on their street that they would destroy all elements of individual achievement and potential rather than find themselves on the bottom of the human scrapheap? That is the saddest indictment of humankind's pettiness that I can imagine. This movie tries to silence its critics through ridiculing, complete with the classic anti-White stereotype of a dumb redneck shouting obscenities. But there is nothing dumb about fearing the dangerous ideas propagated in this movie. Marxist thought processes are responsible for more murder and death in this world than all other political ideologies combined, and nobody should stand idly by while communist ideas disguised as scientific utopia are drip-fed in shiny packaging to a naive, frustrated and intellectually stunted audience. That is a crime more heinous than any international banker. There are many things wrong with the world. But eliminating personal choice and creating a regimented, sterile regime where there is no freedom, no individuality and no room for the highs and lows that are what being alive is all about.. that would be the greatest tragedy of all.

This movie has some interesting points and provides some new perspectives on some ideas. However it removes all personal responsibility in the nature vs nurture argument, while simultaneously promoting the false ideal of a utopian commune. The early arguments in the movie hooked me into watching this train wreck of a "documentary" or poorly produced propaganda film as it should be considered. Zeitgeist takes a painfully strings you along with butchered short interviews to finally begin to make its points after an hour or so of essentially wasted time. It starts with pointing out the flaws and perceived flaws in our current world monetary and free market system and moves on to a lot of unrealistic solutions. It shows a fantasy version of communism where everyone is provided housing and everything they want while robots build everything, completely skipping over the point that robots are expensive and complex and someone or some entity will need to own and control them. Someone will need to spend vast amounts of their time and resources to design, build, program and learn how to do these things. At this present time the motivation for that kind of innovation is money, the movie suggest that this future entitled generation where everything is free will simply volunteer do do the remaining tasks that require human action. Many of the technologies showcased are literally in their infancy and are not yet currently viable options for making durable goods. The machines are called "rapid prototyping" for a reason, they create medium to low strength plastic parts for prototype assemblies to reduce development time and tooling costs associated with the standard r&d process, not to make mechanical items for daily use. Also why high levels of mechanization are currently possible, while not always economically feasible, humans are still required at this point for creating programs, recognizing problems, and creating improvements. They are highly trained specialists, who endure many potentially stressful hours of classroom and workplace educations, in part because that is what they enjoy and also to use the skills as an economic engine to drive their life to where they want it to be. This movie is misleading, if the writer did his homework on his suggestions in the movie he is outright lying through part of it to persuade his audience to his ideology. The movie Idiocracy provides likely a more accurate picture of the future than this mess. A movie made for profit while bashing capitalism and the world monetary system is the definition of hypocrisy.

The filmmakers certainly capture attention with facts and information about natural resources, materialistic culture, and bring to front and center many serious and credible issues facing the human race and the planet. Unfortunately, they failed to get even one contrarian argument and frequently edited their subjects to fit their agenda.What started out as an excellent and important subject for serious discussion and attention turned into gobbledygook when they filmmakers went on a tirade about how the world should work.Nothing wrong with a little bit of naive idealism, but if you're going to make a movie about such serious subject matter, you should have a clue about how the real world works and how problems are actually solved.