Review – The Fog of War

Errol Morris serves up a simple, desultory philippic on the life and times of Robert McNamara. The production is anchored by an extensive interview with its subject, with topics ranging from World War Two to Ford Motors to the World Bank. And obviously Vietnam. I don’t know that I walked away from the movie knowing anything I didn’t know going in, but Morris did an interesting job of putting it together (creative visuals, Glass soundtrack, et cetera). If you really want to have fun watching this, get a group of friends together and take bets on which memories make McNamara cry and which don’t. I also thought Morris should have gone ahead and used the full version of the sequence on the Diem assassination, the cut that appears in the bonus footage part of the DVD. Mildly amusing