Protocols of Zion

Name: Protocols of Zion
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 21, 2005
Duration: 95 min
Rating: 60
Cast: Marc Levin

2005

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HBO Films | Release Date: October 21, 2005 | R

Starring: Marc Levin

Summary: In this documentary, Marc Levin gives us an explosive exploration of resurgent anti-Semitism in the wake of September 11. (ThinkFilm)

Director: Marc Levin

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: R

Runtime: 95 min

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Steven Rea

In the end, this earnest, inquisitive film leaves the viewer longing for some sanity, and some hope, in a world that appears to be seriously lacking in both. Read full review

Walter Addiego

Powerful and depressing. Read full review

Duane Byrge

Protocols of Zion is often funny, revealing the idiocy of hatemongers through their own harebrained explanations. Read full review

Rick Groen

Too often, Levin confuses passion with focus, intensity with clarity, and deflating lies with discovering truths. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

The result is both deeply personal and maddeningly unfocused. Read full review

Ann Hornaday

The movie goes off the rails only when the filmmaker inadvertently legitimizes the Protocols' loony philosophical heirs by interviewing a New York medical examiner and a widow about the remains of one of 9/11's Jewish victims. Read full review

Allison Benedikt

In the end, Protocols of Zion is all context--a bit here about Father Coughlin, a minute there about the Holocaust, a stint with "The Passion" and a brief shot of Levin watching the beheading of Daniel Pearl--no soul. Read full review

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JoeyK.

Jul 28, 2006

Perhaps I watched this movie in the wrong mindset, but I think people are a little hard on it as an effective documentary and social commentary. People are right about it's fuzzy focus and lack of a real driven point, but I didn't look to the movie for that. It was on TV one Perhaps I watched this movie in the wrong mindset, but I think people are a little hard on it as an effective documentary and social commentary. People are right about it's fuzzy focus and lack of a real driven point, but I didn't look to the movie for that. It was on TV one night, i hadn't heard of ti, and I watched it. And it was interesting. It was very informing about what kind of people have what kind of ideas about Jews out there. Of course, I'm not stupid enough to think that the film implies that they're in the majority, but learning about the radicals out there was at the very least, interesting. That's what the film was, interesting and informative. It didn't propose any solutions or make any big points, and it didn't try to. Not a perfect film, but interesting and worthwhile.… Expand

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Spongeee

Dec 6, 2005

It was a solid film. I loved White Boyz, so I had to see this. I didnt know too much about anti Jew issues but this film helped me gain more insight. It went deep but Im sure not as deep as it could have. There are moments made for the camera to make things exciting. Overall worth seeing.

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JanetteY.

Nov 6, 2005

The film loses its message by relying too much on quotes and actions of a choice of randomly thrown-in, anti-social nutheads whose sanity ought to be questioned than worthy of arguing with. There is nothing in the film that reveals any real physical dangers these warped individuals had The film loses its message by relying too much on quotes and actions of a choice of randomly thrown-in, anti-social nutheads whose sanity ought to be questioned than worthy of arguing with. There is nothing in the film that reveals any real physical dangers these warped individuals had actually committed. Marc Levin ridicules this film further by the way he charges at the nutheads and create oral chaos with his condescending arguments and tantrums. This film does poorly to resonate the danger of anti -semitism creeping in our midst.It leaves me , at its finale, feeling exhausted, giddy and cynical.… Expand

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JimG.

Jul 13, 2006

I was very disappointed in this movie. I went in thinking it would be a piece of expose journalism that convinces the viewer by simply laying out facts. Instead, it came across as a very personal and apologetic piece. If all of the people who believe the protocols are real happen to be I was very disappointed in this movie. I went in thinking it would be a piece of expose journalism that convinces the viewer by simply laying out facts. Instead, it came across as a very personal and apologetic piece. If all of the people who believe the protocols are real happen to be wacko, as Levin apparently suggests in the selection of his on-screen adversaries, then what is the point of the movie? Those who discredit the protocols are on film by Levin; those who apparently believe in the protocols are on film by someone else, except for a handful of people on the fringe. Did Levin not want to confront people of the same caliber on the other side of the story? Did he try to interview them? It isn't clear. Also, unfortunately Levin brushes away, rather than addresses to a reasonable conclusion, the story of Israelis who were arrested and deported following 9/11 (I can't remember from the film what exactly happened, other than Levin saying something to the effect "while the situation is unclear, don't jump to conclusions." I guess what is most disappointing to me is that I walked away from the film with more questions than answers. Levin has "Michael Moore'd" his own message--that is, undermined the credibility of his message by APPEARING biased through making the story so personal, seeming selective in facts, and failing to confront the more clever of his adversaries. He has played into the hand of the conspiracy theorists. That is just sad.… Expand

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