Unfortunately, Dr. Greer squanders another opportunity to actually land a punch for the disclosure movement by releasing an even worse pseudo-Marxist (free love / free energy baby!), anti-establishment, anti-American, ultra pro-conspiracy (including 9-1- 1 "truther" garbage) semi-documentary featuring the usual suspects of mostly discredited (but not all!) crackpots, scam artists and shysters (Clifford Stone, Richard Doty, Glenn Dennis, etc). And then there is Edgar Mitchell who was pitching John Podesta on a meeting with President Obama, so he could share his Catholic UFO cult conspiracy membership opportunity (from the Wikileaks hack)—he's in this too. And let's not forget Paul Hellyer, who learned everything he knows about UFOs from...um...Philip Corso who even Stanton Friedman thinks is a fraud. Truly giants of rational, scientific inquiry.
Filled with multiple camera angles of Greer's head, blurred, constantly moving and out of focus "secret" documents, self-aggrandizement (and on screen crying) regarding his meetings with top level officials and lots of other stuff that we have all heard before- and one time too many.
It's a giant advert for his next money making scheme, of course. Some free energy crowd funding disclosure deal.
He comes off like a cult leader and even went so far as to call for actual "revolution", of what type, I don't really know. What I do know is that if he was right about all he spews, he would not actually be alive to say it.
He gives us some overview of UFO history (some of which is valuable) but skips the most accurate, credible and salient info (like Ruppelt's statistics from Project Blue Book or the Ariel school incident or Sagan's actual theories on Ancient Aliens or Col. Robert Friend's "experience" or the JFK requests for UFO info, etc).
Instead, it's just a long drawn out conspiracy weaved together that makes little to no sense and presupposes a ridiculous nefarious plot on the part of our Government (and secret within secret groups) - to the point of absurdity. As if we needed to be told by Greer that Governments lie, cover up and pay for things without telling us. Shocker!
Not sure this qualifies as a documentary. It's basically just another pitch for Greer's often self-contradictory wacky ideas. And "please buy his book", so we can get the truth out there.
Is there some truth here? Yes. But not enough and not the right people to have made it worthwhile. Greer is his own worse enemy and I suspect, an easy mark for those who deal in disinformation and misinformation. And he passes the mark on to us with tons of information that is contradictory, confusing (to those trying to make sense of it), with the smell of a nicely lathered brain-wash.
This subject is truly hidden in plain sight but it's not what Greer wishes it was nor is his pitch for a pseudo-science, post capitalist society (where we all work 10 hours a week), a place where I would like to live. And I could really have done without the gratuitous images of starving black children added in for good measure. So unnecessary. As if Africa's problems are linked to UFO disclosure.
The most amusing part of the film is where he basically makes an argument that both Tesla and Nazis may be behind all of this (which of course contradicts...sort of...the rest of his thesis). But when have facts mattered.
Save your brain cells and pass on this one.
P.S. Rosin changed her Von Braun story recently and conveniently added in 3rd world crazies to the mix. Check out the original quotes from years ago. More fabrications to a very sad attempt to enlighten "open minds".
P.P.S. For those that will assume that this review is misinformation, please reach out and contact me. Happy to confirm that I am a real movie goer and not a Government employees. (apparently, someone has already accused me of being a "paid shill".