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Movie Info

Genre(s): Documentary

Written by:

Directed by: Chris Smith

Release Date:
Theatrical: November 6, 2009

Running Time: 82 minutes, Color

Origin: USA

Summary

RATING: Not Rated

Starring Michael Ruppert

Meet Michael Ruppert, a different kind of American. A former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter, he predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most of Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men. In Collapse, he departs stylistically form his past documentaries by interviewing Ruppert in a format that recalls that work of Errol Morris and Spalding Gray. (Vitagraph Films)

What The Critics Said

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100

The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias

There are many layers to the man and the movie, and it’s hard not to leave the theater shaken.

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91

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

You may want to dispute Ruppert, but more than that you'll want to hear him, because what he says -- right or wrong, prophecy or paranoia -- takes up residence in your mind.

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90

Variety Rob Nelson

Unnervingly persuasive much of the time, and merely riveting when it's not.

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70

Los Angeles Times Robert Abele

A grueling peek at a doomsday prophet's rigorous mind but in a sly way also a compassionate look at the strain Ruppert endures from knowing he has only ever been right.

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60

Time Out New York David Fear

While this totally impartial approach is admirable, it also robs Collapse of any invested sensibility. Smith has given this bull a stage on which to rage, but why the filmmaker has bothered to mount the platform in the first place is, frustratingly, anybody’s guess.

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50

Village Voice Nicolas Rapold

Smith lets Ruppert's plainspoken autodidactic skepticism get gradually shriller until his arguments dissolve into tears of grief and frustration. There's an element of Errol Morris in the film, which implicitly psychologizes its subject and watches as he talks himself deeper and deeper into the hole.

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50

NPR Mark Jenkins

If nothing else, while watching Ruppert, you'll believe he believes this stuff.

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50

The New York Times Jeannette Catsoulis

Mr. Ruppert emerges finally as an authentic human being, sympathetic even when the film that embraces him is not.

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40

New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman

It would have been helpful had Smith put his words into some sort of context, allowing others to assess his theories. Instead there's simply Ruppert, talking, raging and warning, as if his very life depended on it.

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25

New York Post V.A. Musetto

Boring.

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What Our Users Said

The average user rating for this movie is 4.0 (out of 10) based on 1 User Votes

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