Capitalism: A Love Story

 

Capitalism: A Love Story is a Michael Moore film, and by now we know exactly what to expect from this frustrating filmmaker. His take on the financial crisis suffers from the same failings that afflicted his earlier works. The tone alternates between sarcasm and faux-naïveté, the links between his points are clumsy, there's an overreliance on comically voiced stock footage, and he's not above shamelessly milking a child's tears to ram his point home. Aside from a few interesting anecdotes, there is little here that is truly revelatory, and when the film runs out of steam Moore resorts to playing his most tiresome card – standing outside a building with a bullhorn until he is escorted away by security. Michael Moore may be a man with the best intentions at heart but this is another sloppy piece of filmmaking, and when we've already had more than a year's worth of coverage and analysis of the banking collapse, Capitalism: A Love Story just feels like old news.