Best movie of this year hands down!

One of my all time favorites.

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

As a lifelong Beatle fan, who grew up listening to the Beatles and John Lennon, the film made me feel that John was still with us.This film is a must see for any Beatle and/or Lennon fan. It is also a must see for younger generations who really wanted to know what the 1960s was all about and see the cultural shift that was taking place throughout the world.One of the executive producers was an acquaintance of mine. At the time that I first saw the movie, I did not know that this acquaintance was an executive producer. I saw his name in the credits, and also a Thanks acknowledgment to him. I had wondered if it was the same Steven Rothenberg that I met when I was a freshman at Stanford. He was a senior that lived down the hall in the same dormitory where I stayed. Sadly, I have since learned that Steve passed away in 2009. I remember him as a very bright, kind, humble, creative and funny guy. He was always approachable, always cheerful, and he tolerated us squirrelly freshman.

A concert made in order to ask the freedom of John Sinclair. Lennon was there and here begins The U.S. vs. John Lennon, a very entertaining and interesting documentary that first take us to what we already knew about Lennon to end focusing in his deportation problem. The reason of that problem is clear and obvious; the powerful footage is here and the picture features interviews with persons from that side and from the other side (close friends, historians, journalists, veterans, activists, senators, FBI ex-agents, Yoko Ono, etc) and that is quite interesting to hear persons that used to think quite different about Lennon but now those persons, in a neutral side, are glad that Lennon could won, partially. That interesting footage shows Lennon as we remember him and his music was, is and will be very powerful. The "Give Peace a Chance" part is amazing -John Lennon: If I'm going to get on the front page, I might as well get on the front page with the word peace. –Gloria Emerson: but you've made yourself ridiculous! –JL: to some people. I don't care if it saves lives. –GE: you don't think you, oh my dear boy you're living in a never-never land you don't think you've saved a single life?–JL: what were they singing in the moratorium? Give Peace a Chance And I'm glad they sang it AND WHEN I GET THERE I'LL SING IT WITH THEMThe "Mother" part, near the beginning, too and also I found perfect "Here We Go Again" during the part of the reelection of Nixon. "Instant Karma" (one of my personal favourites songs of Lennon) is at the credits of this documentary and made me stay watching and listening until the very end.Conclusion: The U.S. vs. John Lennon is a recommendable picture. Lennon was an admirable person and here his believes and his music are very well presented and the footage is great yet known since we already know who was Lennon and the main subject is interesting but obvious since, knowing who was Lennon, is easy to think the real reasons of why they wanted him outside the U.S. Anyway, I liked it a lot and I hope you can check it out. John Lennon (1940-1980)

The U.S. vs. John LennonI have nothing but problems with this documentary. Firstly, this is a manipulated version of the events. The seal of 'Authorized' has cost this documentary its impartiality and honesty.This documentary has all the hallmarks of a Yoko Ono production. She is portrayed as a sympathetic talented artist with a heart of gold and inseparable if not the catalyst of John Lennon's emerging talent. So the message of this poor documentary is that 'John would have been nothing without Yoko!'Not once is Julian Lennon mentioned in this perversion of History. Julian suffered all his young life with the pain of being ignored and rejected by his own Father. Yet when Yoko's son is born it is reported as if this experience is revelatory and the only one of significance. John and Yoko were having relationship problems before he died. In fact John was sleeping with another Asian girl introduced to him by Yoko. When John started to fall for her, Yoko terminated the relationship.It is a crime that John Lennon's legacy and fortune are in the hands of Yoko Ono who has proved on numerous occasions how morally malleable she is. Julian Lennon on the other hand is forced to go to auctions to bid for articles that once belonged to his dad. He still to this day not received a penny of John Lennon's wealth.The final insult to John's memory is having a sell-out like Geraldo Rivera comment on his life.

I have not rated this movie, as I did not watch it very long after Geraldo Rivera was presented as a credible commentator.I don't know anything about the agenda or quality of this documentary that you may know if you watched past the first ten minutes. It certainly features a lot of great music and an impressive array of commentators. But if you're going to pretend to journalism, and address and exploit some of the sacred relics of counterculture, you should damn well know better than to talking-head Geraldo Rivera interchangeably with Noam Chomsky and Bobby Seale and Gore Vidal.David Leaf and John Scheinfeld are the guys behind the UNKNOWN series of hack biography/archive footage exploitation videos on old comedians. The Jonathan Winters one lets Winters commandeer the proceedings in a stream-of-consciousness performance, to mixed result, but the kinescope routines make it a keeper. Also that one does not feature Geraldo Rivera.