This is not a film about gun control. It is a film about the fearful heart and soul of the United States, and the 280 million Americans lucky enough to have the right to a constitutionally protected Uzi. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of Oscar-winning NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with The Anarchist's Cookbook to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old. Bowling for Columbine is a journey through the US, through our past, hoping to discover why our pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence.
A sweeping, sometimes insightful and often funny look at America's culture of violence.
– Robert Denerstein,
Denver Rocky Mountain News,
26 Oct 2002
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Bowling for Columbine would never be mistaken for even-handed, but it is at least a sincere attempt to find the source of this country's inability to curb gun violence and murder.
– Terry Lawson,
Detroit Free Press,
26 Oct 2002
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A worthy successor to Roger & Me.
– Roger Moore,
Orlando Sentinel,
31 Oct 2002
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Fascinating, thought-provoking, often fitfully funny and sometimes devastatingly sad.
– Bob Longino,
Atlanta Journal-Constitution,
2 Nov 2002
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All in all, Mr. Moore has given us a lot to think about in Bowling for Columbine, and he has entertained us royally in the process.