Sicko (2007)

Michael Moore does portray some rather interesting viewpoints throughout the course of "Sicko". Just a shame that it is so painstakingly staged. and that leaves a big question mark as to how much of this is actually true and portraying real situations, and just how much is staged and presented in a very manipulated way.For example, the thing with the Cuban hospital, which he failed to state as being an elitist hospital and that it is not readily available to the general Cuban populace. So he falsified the actual truth here and manipulated into seeming like this was just something that was easily done in Cuba. (Insert buzzer sound here) Sorry Michael, but that is a no go. And it builds so much discredit to your reputation.Sure, "Sicko" was entertaining enough, but this is hardly something that you should just buy and accept with closed eyes, because it was just too staged.And this is not the type of documentary that you will watch more than once.

This documentary was very good. It focuses on the health care system in the United States and basically compares our health care system to health care systems around the world. The differences are startling and absolutely infuriating if you're an American. Michael Moore does a good job of exposing some of the lies and misconceptions surrounding universal health care in other countries and he also explores how the government and insurance companies play a big role in blocking change to the health care system. I would definitely say that this movie is worth watching if you're an American. If you are not an American, it is still worth watching, but it may not be as interesting to you as it is to Americans.

This review contains spoilers, you have been warned.10 stars because it was a social justice master piece, Michael-angelo's work of art hilariously exposing the crap that is the USA capitalist "health care" system, the cowardliness, hypocrisy and arbitrary bias and prejudice of politicians and rich people, and how the US people, just let the US Gov. screw them over everyday, while doing nothing about it, even when death and tragedy strikes real people with real health needs, that "the most powerful Country in the World" should and easily could cover it, but ironically fails miserably at it, the sole reason being inhumane greed, promoted by the short sighted and self-destructive Capitalist Economic System. Also ironically you don't need more Capialism in a Market Economy to feel more free and disproportionate profitble, through selfishness and competition, it was demonstrated that cooperation, generosity, compassion through empathy and love, are clearly the answer, because it works great!This is why I advocate for a Resource-Based Economy, the rational, fair and efficient way to allocate resources for every human on Earth; read more and help transition to it, at thevenusproject.com and thezeitgeistmovement.com and theresourcebasedeconomy.com. First we must educate ourselves, through Science what is it, why is a god solution and how to transition.

In the documentary "Sicko," filmmaker Michael Moore is at it again, doing what he does best: providing social commentary in his trademark pull-no-punches, shoot from the hip style, with his expected blend of irony and understatement to make his point. "Sicko" is a film about the sad state of health care in the United States and functions to shake us up and make us think about the kind of mess we are really in with escalating costs of medical care and prescription medicine in conjunction with a broken health insurance system. With a mixture of interviews from sick patients having been denied medical treatment by insurance companies, to images depicting our poor dropped off by taxis on streets corners by hospitals, to presenting in comparison the exemplary government managed health care systems of Canada, France, Briton, and Cuba, Moore's theme of the inadequacy of health care in the U.S. shouts at the audience loud and clear. Rated PG-13 for mature subject matter, mild profanity, and brief nudity.