The film is endlessly mesmerizing. Anyone (like myself) not old enough to have lived through Vietnam will find this immensely telling. A true look at what it means to hold the future of the world in one hand, this film is unsettling yet amazing at the same time. If your thoughts aren't somehow provoked by this film, then you ought not to be a voting citizen!

Overrated, but interesting.

This should be required viewing in every college and high school history class touching on American history. Those who would so readily crown WW II era Americans as "the greatest generation" can contemplate the little discussed fire bombing and burning of dozens of Japanese cities and tens of thousands of civilian women and children. If, as McNamara argues, "proportionality" is a key standard for judging war time behavior, then.… Expand

Great film - eroll morris is the best documentary filmmaker working today.

Donald Rumsfield, anyone? Errol calendar the Interratron for that man a couple of years from now! OK, affected as I am by the facts presented, the style, I am dismayed somewhat that Mr. Morris was not more interested in getting more answers. How much loss is too much? That aside, one can't watch this film and wonder if the archival footage and Philip Glass soundtrack paints a different picture than the raw interview footage does. This is a man with regrets but does not own up to them. Was that the director I was talking about or the subject? Watch it and then you decide. Documentary film has reached the masses in the last 12 months and this is another to be revered.… Expand

He still doesn't fully understand what harm he caused. Who will be the McNamara of the Bush regime? Colin Powell?

A must see.but very self serving of all involved particularly Curtis lemay(bush?) read daniel elsbergs Secrets for a better look at what and particularly when they all knew about what happen in the gulg of tonken. when we we ever learn.

A thought provoking film both on a political and personal level. Macnamara makes a fascinating study of a man in the twilight of his life looking back with a human eye on the bellicose legacy that he was involved in, and trying to come to terms with its futility in his own mind.

Regardless of his subject, Morris is a genius of his form. Particularly interesting in this film are the recorded conversations (between Kennedy and McNamara, Johnson and McNamara, and others) that bring history to startling life. Who among us can really read narrative told through images, or fully understand the meanings created by editing images and juxtaposing them with sounds, words, and music? Interpreting Morris may prove to be as fascinating and frustrating and essentially bottomless as interviewing McNamara.… Expand

It's great to know that a political documentary that ends up in semi-wide release can be this pointed and effective.

This was reallly good, but it wasn't better than Capturing the Friedmans.

Required viewing for anyone who supported the Iraq War. Thanks to Errol Morris's trademark camera techniques, former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara stares right at you and lifts some heavy dirt off his soul. This is as engrossing and entertaining a film as any blockbuster, but it is something more--it is an invaluable history lesson.

Thought provoking and excellent! will not sell a lot but see it i would suggest.

Very well done, nearly every moment was gripping from start to finish. I'm not old enough to have experienced the periods of history covered in the film, yet this film hit home with me as a born & bred citizen. I would encourage and invite anyone to see this film at least once, particularly any fellow Americans old enough to comprehend the ultimate societal breakdown known as war.