Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Very interesting film. Was caught on the premise when seeing the trailer but unsure as to what the outcome would be for the showing. As it turns out, it was a very good film.

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

Very good movie overall, highly recommended. Most of the negative reviews don't have any merit and are all pollitically based. Give this movie a chance at least, and it might give you a different perspective.

Although the title makes it sound like it will be interesting and it is directed and written by Morgan Spurlock from Super Size Me which was a very engaging, original film, Where in the World is neither of those.It follows Morgan as he travels to the Middle East in search of- you guessed it- Osama Bin Laden. The movie takes you through many interviews with locals of Egypt, Israel, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia and more. He asks them about their feelings towards America, and of course whether they know where OBL (as he calls him) is. None of these interviews yield any substantial, insightful or noteworthy remarks. The movie simply drags on and Morgan's mock quest seems pointless even for us to watch.The movie is overly gimmicky and my impression was that it tried much too hard to do something that had already been done before. Certain parts reminded me of Bill Maher's Religulous which I thoroughly enjoyed and actually saw 3 times. Similarly, Spurlock inserts some comedic elements into his scenes, a few of which I have to admit are funny. For instance he shows a page in Osama's diary which reads: 1. Clean Cave (this one is crossed out and done), 2. Kill all Infidels etc.; and on another page "I hate America", "I am bored today". This was the only moment where I actually laughed.The big difference is that Religulous posed real questions and was much more historical, analytical and instructive. If you're looking for a film where the director already has his answers before he sets upon his search, Fahrenheit 9/11 or Capitalism: A Love Story (which I will be reviewing soon) are much stronger candidates. Fabio said "it is like a bad Michael Moore" and that pretty much sums it up.Fabio's rating: 5 Mine: 3 Read more reviews at: http://paulinasmovies.blogspot.com

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning Morgan Spurlock (remember, the guy who ate all the food on the McDonald's menu?) suddenly learns that his girlfriend is pregnant with his first child and, amongst all the other emotions that must be running around in his head, he thinks: I've got to make this world a safer place for her to grow up in and, since the CIA and the American Special Forces, with all their technology and man-power, haven't managed to do it, I will achieve said safer world by hunting down and claiming the world's most wanted man, Osama bin Laden. His hunt takes him from Egypt, to Morrocco, to the East Bank in Palestine, to Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Tora Bora in Afghanistan, and Pakistan, interviewing possible leads along the way, interviewing key religious figures on each side of the religious war as well as hearing from everyday people in these war torn, repressed countries their views views on Americans around the world and their foreign policy.So Spurlock, the man probably best remembered for 'the McDonalds experiment' film Super Size Me in 2004, has a sudden need to find the number one terror link in the world to make the world safer for his newborn child? Only he will know if this is really true or if he just wanted some more attention in the film world after SSM four years ago, which this didn't get half the exposure of. And quite rightly, for, although an interesting piece of food for thought, WITWIOBL? doesn't leave quite the same impact as his hamburger odyssey (although the motivations behind it are arguably much more important.) The film starts by noting the most glaring, niggling fact that the Americans, with the most sophisticated, advanced technology in the world, have spent nearly ten years looking, without success, for a man hiding in a cave. Given his health was reputedly failing when the hunt for him began, and with the above fact in mind, I would draw the conclusion that Bin Laden is almost certainly dead now. I would also summarise that the president and the military chiefs of America are aware of this. If you're of the viewpoint that they deny it to keep the war effort going, that's what you think, but Spurlock obviously feels there is some point to his new film, so that's why he made it.It's easy to compare the guy to another famous modern documentarian, Michael Moore, with his use of humour to accentuate serious subject matter. The opening skit, involving dancing bin Laden's, is proof of this. But, also like Moore, he has a tendency to be one sided, obviously trying to plug his opinion in some way rather than showing a balanced argument from both sides. Here, Spurlock actually seems less interested in hunting for bin Laden than plugging the message to the world that' we only hate muslims because of what the American media show us, most of them are really decent, ordinary people like you and me.' While this is undoubtedly true, it detracts from the point of the film and is pretty obvious. Even when he visits Saudi Arabia (where church and state are unseperated), we see only young muslims reacting to what they are being taught, most obviously when he interviews two young students in a classroom and is forced to stop the interview when he asks them their feelings about Israelis. In fact, it says a lot that these are the people he receives the most hostile reaction from, encountering aggression when visiting an area where a sign asks (commands) male passers by not to go through their area in 'immodest dress', showing it's not just muslims who haven't got rid of out-dated ideas in the modern world and who adhere too tightly to dress codes.Spurlock ditched his original idea (probably knowing he was really on a wild goose chase) and instead spends most of his film trying to plug his left wing ideologies to the audience. It casts an interesting light on facts surrounding the hunt for Osama and the religious conflicts that still go on in the world, but the 'muslims are just like us' vibe sends it all off course from what it was really trying to do. ***

Upon retrospect and re-reading the review I gave to Spurlock's first film Super Size Me, it turns out that I am giving this one the same score out of ten but somehow Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden just isn't nearly as heartfelt, informative, nor mind changing. Some reviewers say that he makes you think about racism and typecasting and terrorism but I didn't get any of that. He just seemed to come up with this idea right out of the blue and go blundering into various middle eastern countries asking people where Osama is. Somehow after seeing the potential talent in Super Size Me, I thought this was a huge step down for him. Even Super Size Me felt like it was building to a climax that never happened but the thing of it is that there was actual information there and you were watching this disastrous change and the idea of fast food being so deadly is something that anyone could relate to. This on the other hand just doesn't even build to much of anything. The information provided is really sub par and as much as Morgan Spurlock manages to be interesting he just doesn't pull it off for this one.Once again all eyes are on writer, director and star Morgan Spurlock. There is no doubt that he is talented because if anything can be learned from both of his films it's that he has this way of relating to the audience. You don't feel like it's a documentary and he just simplifies everything and tries to make it a personal, important experience but with Where In The World Is Osama Bin Laden it just didn't feel like he had the passion behind it. It more seemed like he just thought it was a decent idea. Its not that the film isn't worth seeing just don't expect it to really blow you away. Check out his early work in Super Size Me which I think I underrated the first time around. Regardless he has a lot of talent he just needs the right topic to cover and he'll really breakthrough. 6/10

I have always been a fan of Morgan. He is head and shoulders above Michael Moore. In this film I really gathered a lot of information on how different countries in the Middle East feel about the United States and the attitudes of our so called friends. I know the U.S. has to do the things that may not be so popular for the best interest of the Country and I am OK with that but when you see how much some of these countries hate us anyway it makes you think. The thing that hit me square between the eyes of this whole film is how much the Saudi's feel and how they run their country. We buy all this oil from them and they look to me as the center of this whole mess we are in, but we will never call them on the carpet because we need them so much. What a mess! I feel we will never be free of this Blackmail until we are energy independent. These people are so rich that they will always have the power to make it hard for us. Thank you. I liked the film very much.