Did you people see the same film I saw?

A lot of perfectly good film show their cards early, establish a unique premise and let the audience explore a topic at a leisurely pace, without much in terms of surprise. this film is not one of those films.

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.

Well i'm not an American, nor Japanese the examples given are too specific and might have nothing to do with many people in the rest of the world. The example of ethnicity by names, and sumo wrestlers, they could have given better examples as i was expecting some real economics in this documentary.. too low to be called a documentary. There were some interesting parts of how crime rate reduced by legalizing abortions. The incentives article made no sense, totally. Do they wanna show incentives work or not?

A few of the issues addressed in the book are examined: cheating, paying students, crime.The crime segment was interesting as statistics were actually used. I didn't quite understand how the percentages were developed for why crime decreased. I do find it interesting that Roe v. Wade is used to explain the reduction of crime in the late 1980s.I guess I didn't quite follow the sumo controversy too carefully. That a match that doesn't much matter is "thrown" doesn't bother me. When an NFL team has secured a spot in the playoffs, it often doesn't play its stars in a meaningless end of season regular game. I liken the sumo situation to that.Freakonomics is thought provoking. For that, it is recommended. Treat yourself to an interesting flick.

I had low expectations for this and I will admit that my expectations were met. My main gripe with this movie is the music. The music that plays in the beginning, end, and in-between segments is a blatant rip-off of Hans Zimmer's "You're So Cool", the pretty glockenspiel song from the "True Romance" soundtrack. Jim Carrey once said, "Imitation is the most sincere form of plagiarism". That is an appropriate quote in regards to this movie's soundtrack. The actual movie, ignoring the wanna-be music, is so-so. I don't want to be to be cruel to the work as a whole, but the music is what compelled me to write this review. I don't know the legalities of it, but it seems Hans Zimmer should sue.

The entire thing went by so fast.To those that are unaware, this movie the the Freakonomics book adapted to a a movie format with flashy colours and animations for those who need more stimulation than just text (though I would highly recommend the book as well since it goes into much more detail). The components are well-done, and Levitt makes very convincing arguments that are hard to dispute. He is a very well respected professor in the field of economics. A little background on him from Wiki: "Winner of the 2004 John Bates Clark Medal, he is currently the William B. Ogden Distinguished Service Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago, director of the Becker Center on Chicago Price Theory at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, and co-editor of the Journal of Political Economy published by the University of Chicago Press"I like how the previous review just wrote off "incentives", as if they were a minuscule part to any decision. In fact, incentives are the MAIN factors to any decision made, ever. Have you ever taken an economics course? You learn this in the first-year introductory class, I believe. But I'll gladly welcome you to try and disprove hundreds of years of research by brilliant scholars.