This film makes no mention that it's a mockumentary and I find that predatory. Had I known it was fake I wouldn't have watched it. I was believing the story up until they receive a video. At that point the suspension of belief was blown and left me mad for wasting my time. If it was a real documentary I would have given it a higher rating but I feel like this is a bait and switch scheme.
Population Zero
2016
Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Population Zero
2016
Action / Crime / Mystery / Thriller
Plot summary
In April 2009 three young men were killed in a remote part of Yellowstone National Park. Authorities Never Found the Murderer. He Found Them. Only hours after three young men were gunned down in cold blood, Dwayne Nelson walked into a ranger station miles away and confessed to the crime. Despite his detailed confession, Dwayne Nelson was allowed to go free because of a loophole in the American Constitution. Award Winning Canadian Documentarian Julian T. Pinder (Trouble in the Peace, Land, Jesus Town) travels to Yellowstone in a cinematic and compelling chase for truth behind a crime that should have rocked the nation. How did the United States Constitution, the supreme law of the United States of America, let a guilty man go free? In his hunt for answers Pinder breaks the first rule of documentary film making by allowing himself to become a subject in the story; risking his life and others when he finds evidence that could re-open the case of the Yellowstone Murders years later. In Pinder's POPULATION ZERO we come to find the only thing more shocking than the crime itself are the bizarre events that followed.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Rob Stewart as Raymond Gibbs
Tech specs
720p.WEB 1080p.WEB 761.26 MB
1280*714
English 2.0
NR
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Mockumentary Not Documentary
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Starts out great, then gets ridiculous.
I thought the first 30 minutes were excellent, and it's hard to tell it's a "mockumentary" and seems real. I thought the whole story was real. But then the director himself starts acting more aggressive and ridiculous, some of the acting starts to seem "off" with secondary characters, it goes way way over the top. Shame is, it would have been great if they kept up the realism. It just gets too ridiculous. I did lose interest once it was clear it's all fake.
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Would have been interesting if true
This one actually sucked me in. I thought I was watching one of those documentaries where the director makes himself the star of the film and hogs all the camera time with his ruminations. The plot, if true, would have made a fascinating documentary, but since this is all just complete fiction dressed up to look like a bad documentary, it's completely worthless as a film, as sheer a waste of time as I have ever wasted time on.