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As somebody who had not heard any of this before, it became a curious phenomenon to sit and watch a film and slowly have the realities begin to click into place.

One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

There are some parts of "Sicko" I just cannot believe are real. Whether or not it's the obvious cost cutting initiative's that benefit Insurance companies, or the fact that America's health care system is ranked 37 out of 191 by the World Health Organization. This documentary is a superb eye opener when it comes to seeing just how a few other countries and their policies seem unreal by comparison.This is possibly my favourite of Moore's work so far. There cannot help but be a presence of sarcasm as he continues to go to the lengths he does in order to make some progress, especially with the rescue workers of 9/11. It wouldn't be a Michael Moore film without a little politics here and there, whether you agree with the man or not there's always a level of truth to it all.Final Verdict: Definitely something you should watch, just for the absurdities of it all. 8.5/10.

One earlier review title sums it up - short on information, high on anecdotal scare stories. I enjoy Michael Moore as a film-maker. Canadian Bacon was fun, it was a spoof, it was fictional. Sicko cannot be described as 'fictional' but it is no more realistic than Canadian Bacon. No health care system in the world is perfect, the US is certainly no exception. But, the description of the Cuban system was so ludicrously inaccurate and misleading as to be laughable. Can a health care system, where officials of the national blood service knowingly, willfully allow HIV-infected blood to be distributed for transfusions (as was the case in France) be considered exemplary? And the greatest pressure in US hospitals to get patients 'out the door' comes not from private insurance companies but from public-funded programs (Medicare / Medicaid). Outcomes data clearly document that if you have a serious illness, there is no better place to be than the US. If a 12 year old girl severs a digit, a thumb for example, she will probably get excellent, low/no cost wound care in Canada and the UK, and grow up without a thumb. In the US she might even be able to have that thumb surgically re-attached (that is fact, albeit anecdotal), although that is not guaranteed, some insurance programs will not cover the surgery, and the success rate is far from 100%. If Moore had started with the premise, 'Who has had a fantastic experience with health care in the US', he could just as easily have produced a so-called documentary with a very different message, but which would have probably also been equally unrepresentative of reality. Enjoy the movie, but don't take it too seriously.

In the documentary "Sicko," filmmaker Michael Moore is at it again, doing what he does best: providing social commentary in his trademark pull-no-punches, shoot from the hip style, with his expected blend of irony and understatement to make his point. "Sicko" is a film about the sad state of health care in the United States and functions to shake us up and make us think about the kind of mess we are really in with escalating costs of medical care and prescription medicine in conjunction with a broken health insurance system. With a mixture of interviews from sick patients having been denied medical treatment by insurance companies, to images depicting our poor dropped off by taxis on streets corners by hospitals, to presenting in comparison the exemplary government managed health care systems of Canada, France, Briton, and Cuba, Moore's theme of the inadequacy of health care in the U.S. shouts at the audience loud and clear. Rated PG-13 for mature subject matter, mild profanity, and brief nudity.

Michael Moore delivers once again, as usual, an important message which should be seen by every American. Moore travels the world for comparisons and finds much better coverage for the citizens elsewhere. In England, everyone is covered by a comprehensive system which was determined to be the right of every Brit starting shortly after World War 2. National health also works well in Canada, where as in England and France, all are covered. Here in the United States, about 50 million people are not covered. The drug and insurance companies run the system through lobbyists who write the laws. This needs to be changed. Hopefully, enough people will see Sicko to make a difference.