Powerful, clever, original and very realistic.A "documentary" of the assassination of George W Bush in 2007. Much of the footage is of actual Bush speeches and the like, cleverly spliced with staged material to make a fictional story. It fits together so smoothly and seamlessly you would not know that this is fiction.Solid performances from the actors in the staged segments give this a very authentic feel.Not just a good story, but a profound one too, one with great social and moral observations. It powerfully highlights the hysteria, irrationality and injustice that prevails in society, especially in reaction to a catastrophic event, and also the prejudices that exist.I was expecting, with some trepidation, that this film was going to have some sort of political agenda, i.e that it would be a left-wing daydream or a right-wing attack on the opponents of Bush. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that it is very well balanced and has no real political agenda.

I get the point of the movie. In the current day post 9/11 United States there's so much fear and paranoia that restricting the rights of American citizens in the name of greater security is considered a patriotic act, and after any traumatic event the automatic reaction will be to look for and find a scapegoat (if possible, a Muslim) to place the blame on and then doggedly stick to that conclusion even if the evidence starts to clearly point otherwise. I get that. In the last 20 minutes or so of the movie that point is made very well and very powerfully. To me, though, the lead in to that last 20 minutes was problematic at best.The movie is a "mockumentary" about the events leading up to and following the hypothetical assassination of U.S. President George W. Bush. If I recall, some found it very distasteful that a movie would portray the assassination of a sitting (at the time) president. I'm not sure whether or not I'd call it distasteful, but to me it lost a lot of its potential power by portraying an event that didn't happen - and by treating it all so seriously. I couldn't take this seriously. Not when I knew that all of the events being portrayed were totally a product of the imagination. For that reason above all else this just did not work for me. I get the point of the movie. The U.S. government is willing to use any event (foreign or domestic) to increase its powers and to curtail the liberty of its citizens - and all in the name of "freedom." The point was made clearly, and so it was made well. But I do at least question whether the vehicle used to make that point was appropriate, and in any event I'm not in particular a fan of mockumentaries. (3/10)

Firstly I should state that I am no fan of George W. Bush and in fact think he is probably the worst president of the past 30 years. I also do not find the film's subject matter "disgusting." People in the U.S. and elsewhere are free to make a movie exploring the effects of an assassination on George W. Bush or any other public figure. And Americans shouldn't be so hasty to lambaste something since they only bring more attention to it by doing so. With that said: this movie is terrible. It does not belong in a theater; it is a film that screams loudly it was made to be viewed on the internet, or at best as a made-for-TV movie. It is not only poorly made but also unprofessional. It is a fictional movie presented in a realistic manner, yet it comes nowhere near convincing the viewer to take it seriously. The story is poorly told: the movie attempts to lay itself out as a documentary, yet all the while knows itself to be a work of fiction. There are plot twists and severe dramatic elements, neither of which belong in a documentary, which presents solely the facts. The style of the film is terrible; from obviously photo shopped images of interviewed actors appearing with the President, to lame mock-ups of anti-Bush protests, the movie consistently comes across as childish and amateur. The worst part of the film is probably the actors who are interviewed, each one is terrible in their own unique way. And then of course the movie's liberal slant is presented about as subtly as a Dick Cheney gunshot to the face.The movie is not worth seeing, but not because of its controversial subject matter. It is simply a poorly made film that hinges its entire presentation on its controversial statement. It will disappear, as well as it should, from memory and fade into notoriety.

This movie should be a wake-up call to President George W. Bush and to all American citizens sympathizing him as well.This fictional documentary presents the investigations that followed after the murder of George W. Bush on October 19, 2007.But truth to be told, the only thing imaginary and set in the future is the murder of the President. Everything else presented in the movie - the investigation, the use of force by the police, the violation of civil rights, the racial profiling of the investigators, the pressure of linking the murder to Al Quaida or Syria, the false conviction of a man under the pressure of President Cheney, the Patriot Act III - all of these are the harsh reality of today's USA.There is no need for October 17 to come... because all of these are already here.