Review – Wisconsin Death Trip

I never thought I’d write this in a movie review, but in this case the director actually would have been well advised to imitate Ken Burns. After all, the book upon which this documentary was based contained no end of fascinating photographs. Instead what we get is Errol Morris, with plenty of over-arty recreations of bizarre incidents from small-town Wisconsin in the 1890s and 1900s. This isn’t a bad film, thanks at least in part to the excellent source material. However, it might have been better if the director had just avoided working it quite so hard. Mildly amusing