Really Surprised!

Powerful

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

A lot of problems like migration, the real face of the fast food industry, the way they treat animals, work accidents, people using methamphetamine etc. were mentioned during movie. But these problems could have been shown more detailed. Thinking of the basis of the characters, it was really insufficient. It could be a better movie but it's still worth to see to gain a point of view about what really goes on till we have our fast food meal.

The movie is 10 years old at this point and very dated. Better to watch a documentary about the meatpacking industry and/or entering the country illegally. This movie was all over the place. I frankly have not much sympathy for anyone entering the United States illegally and hope that with Trump elected and the building of the wall, it will stop. Better young Mexicans actually stay in Mexico and fight to make their native country better. And if I want to eat meat, I will realistically take my chances where I eat it in America. You can most certainly get sick eating organically raised meat or plants also, for pity sake.

The creators wanted to create a movie out of a book that detailed the issues with America's obsession with fast food. It's a wide ranging topic exploring the effect this has on health, food safety, the environment, illegal immigration, big corporations, land use, etc.Trying to 'humanize' this story for a movie-going audience was no small task. But the result is a series of monologues that almost read like a lecture on various topics. Bruce Willis for example had a tough job of selling the corporation's point of view. Kudos to him for doing a remarkable job of making it sound less like a stilted speech and more like an everyday conversation. A lesser actor like the ones playing the student activists were much less successful. The scene where they're 'preaching' to each other about the evils of corporate fast food empires looked too contrived - as if they were reading all the main points off of a cue card.The real 'human' story is the one about the illegal immigrants. The toll was greatest amongst these labourers too afraid to speak up about the injustices done to them because of their precarious status in the country.The vignette approach has its pros and cons. For our fast food generation, concentrating on anything for more than five minutes makes our head hurt. As a result, very few of the scenes last longer than five minutes. The result is a disjointed yet interesting snippets of info, drama, and melodrama wrapped up in a semi-preachy yet still worthwhile movie.7/10

Perhaps at the time this film came out it made news, but it is now merely a moralistic bore. Many writers have made hay of the beef industry and its hand maiden, fast food in recent years, so if you're paying attention, nothing in this film is really news.Beyond that, it is a bleak picture of humanity, which isn't unfair, just incomplete. The story is slow, uncompelling, and boring. I nearly turned it off at a couple different points and regretted that I hadn't. The end was a nice little touch, but not worth the wait.The characters themselves for the most part were very unengaging, cardboard-like, and simply uninteresting. The fact that this movie was based on a non-fiction book should ward off any potential viewer. I didn't heed the warning, and thus, I wish I had those two hours back. I would have been much better off reading a book about food than watching this movie.Don't make my mistake--there are much better movies about food out there, this one is terrible.