After watching Michael Moore’s documentary style movies, Bowling for Columbine, about high school violence, and Farenheit 911 as well as his other one about the car industry, who’s name escapes me at the moment, I thought I’d at least find his latest documentary movie about the terrible state of the American health care system, “Sicko” entertaining, or thought provoking, but what it ended up being was a message laced, agenda driven movie that was anti republican in it’s agenda.

It actually seemed very sensationalistic to me, and I think I stopped watching around the part where Moore takes a boat full of people in dire need of healthcare who can’t afford it for one reason or another and are being turned away by doctors, hospitals and the health care they should have a right to, to Guantanamo Bay prison, where prisoners sadly get better health care than the millions of uninsured Americans who’ve done nothing wrong.

This part seemed particularly sensationalistic and exploitative in nature and it really turned me off from his movie making efforts.  I suddenly saw Michael Moore as an opportunist of sorts, someone to come in and criticize a system and make a public cry for reform, but with no solutions to offer. 

He spends the majority of the documentary demonstrating how much better healthcare is in other parts of the world, such as France, Cuba, and Canada, but also leaves out the factors that make this sort of public free or almost free healthcare possible.  Such as the fact that Canada doesn’t have to have an army and therefore can afford this sort of public healthcare system, or that Britain and France tax the hell out of it’s citizens.  He brings this point up, but only to show how comfortably it’s citizens still live. 

I just thought he could have presented other sides of the story a little better, but he really only presented the points that best supported his agenda for this movie, which was to point out, yet again, more ways in which America sucks.  Sorry Michael, this one really turned me off, and I’m willing to bet you turned a lot of other people off too with this latest self promotional attempt at pointing out the injustices we suffer.