If you haven't seen this movie yet, and you've seen Transformers twice, you probably don't want to go back to the movies again. But I assure you, its the wisest way to spend another 12 bucks.
Canadians may not be interested in an American documentary about an American health care system - or just a documentary period, but there are a lot of parallels between American HMO's and the pharmaceutical industry in Canada. Moore makes the best multimedia case possible about the injustices of private health care in the US, just like he made the case about America's gun culture, stolen elections, and the motivations of the auto industry before.
The movie just runs through people's stories, and the viewer is made to feel like a close friend being confided in by each successive person. Everyone I saw in the theatre both laughed and cried during the movie.
Moore takes heat from conservatives in the US, completely undeservedly. Sure, he goes overboard with some criticisms, and presents one side of the story. But lets remember, this is all a good lawyer does as well, and Moore's documentaries run like a prosecutor's case. Just because you don't have all sides of the story, it doesn't diminish the credibility of what you do have. And I think Moore has been getting it mostly right since "Roger and Me". It takes a brave man and a patriot to be able to criticize his own country in the hopes of changing it for the better.
