In 2004 Morgan Spurlock’s documentary “Super Size Me” made us think twice about the fast food we ate particularly at McDonalds. In “Super Size Me”, Morgan Spurlock ate all his meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner at McDonalds for 30 straight days. His doctor monitored his declining health. The documentary was fascinating, but the best thing about “Super Size Me” was that it managed to hold the audiences’ attention as it attempted to show the results of something we’ve always wonder about but never seen. The main problem with “Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?” is that everything Morgan does here has already been covered, all his questions already been asked and he essentially uncovers zero new information.
In “Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?” Morgan’s girlfriend, Alexandra Jamieson, is pregnant. Morgan’s soon to be born child begins to steer up anxiety about all the dangerous of the world. Morgan decides he has to do something about it. Determine to make the world a safer place, he decides to find the most dangerous man on earth: Osama Bin Laden. Morgan heads off to train and is soon traveling the globe trying to locate the whereabouts of Osama.
Morgan uses the premise of trying to find Osama, to answer some of the questions with the conflict between America and the Middle East. The problem is the Morgan doesn’t cover any new ground here. Everything he discusses has been debated to death before. Moreover, Morgan’s wise guy character from “Super Size Me” is still very much in effect. The problem here is that it seems forced. Add to this the odd special effects that only help distract the viewer.
The only thing that could have save the movie was if Morgan had found Osama. I think he was tempted, at the end, to enter the tribe land in Pakistan. I rather he not had shown us the last scene and just say he couldn’t find Osama than what he actually did. It almost as though he quits. Overall, for those who know little about Osama and the conflict in the Middle East this film might actually be a good staring point, but beware of the odd special effects and Morgan’s anticlimactic finale.
Review by Milton Brayson
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Release Date: August 26, 2008
