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Crude Impact (2006)
An insightful mess...
Despite being fact-filed and insightful, this doc is ultimately a dreadful and ponderous muddle. The film's weak episodic structure is haphazard and amateurish at best and is only accentuated by bad editing and total editorial ineptitude. This is the worst kind of documentary - the kind that takes good research, hard-won facts, great coverage, fabulous footage, compelling interviews... and presents them all like uncreative pablum. Energy is a very competitive documentary topic right now, and there are more and more good films and TV shows that deal with these important issues - this is not one of them. By all means watch this film, it has some very compelling information and ideas, but keep your finger firmly on the 'fast-forward' and 'next chapter' buttons. DF