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Too much of everything

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

It’s not bad or unwatchable but despite the amplitude of the spectacle, the end result is underwhelming.

The movie really just wants to entertain people.

Nice to see a film that shows both sides of this coin. And nice to see the politicians portrayed as the hypocritical, judgmental, short sided neanderthals they truly are. I have long felt that if an athlete was willing to sacrifice his body, to achieve results, then it is their choice, and they should be allowed to do it. George Bush II owned the Texas Rangers, and was fully aware that a lot of his players were doping. Then he became president, and talked on and on about the war on drugs, and the evils of drugs. Same with Arnold. He took steroids since he was 16, but when he became governor, he was all of a sudden opposed to their use. Phone, disingenuous, dishonest, and totally compromised, and insincere. Steroids should be legal. Period. Drugs should be legal. Making them illegal does nothing to discourage their usage. Stop the war on drugs. Alcohol is legal. Thousands of other drugs are legal. Stop the nonsense.This film does a good job revealing how ridiculous and self righteous this movement is, to stop steroid use. Kudos to them to telling the truth. Who's body is it anyway?

It takes guts to do a documentary about steroids because no matter what you're going to upset somebody. There is the anti-steroid crowd and the pro- steroid crowd, and it's just not possible to please 2 masters. Having said that, this was probably the most balanced look at steroids I've ever seen. It covers as many bases as possible in a 105 minute film.Bell interviews his own family, along with his professional wrestler and professional powerlifter brothers. You really get an insight into why people want to use steroids and get to the next level.He interviews professional politicians, a father who lost a son, a muscle magazine editor, doctors, researchers, among so many others. He even compares banned substances/practices to those that are legal in an interesting way that will make you think.I never got the feeling Bell was pushing any type of agenda. It is the most balanced look at steroids I have ever seen. He looks at the myths, the hype, the medicine, the harm, and the stigma.If you watch the documentary with anything but an open mind, you'll probably be disappointed. Roger Ebert was quoted, "remarkable in that it seems to be interested only in facts".

Hey! You wanna meet the "million-dollar" athletes who cheat (with steroids)?.Yes. Even if you're not an avid body-builder, I certainly think that this documentary "Bigger, Stronger, Faster*" is well-worth a view.This 2008 documentary really does open the viewer's eyes to how wide-spread the use of steroids (not only amongst athletes) actually is in the USA (and, of course, the rest of the world, as well).I definitely give director/co-writer, Chris Bell, a big hand of applause for the very professional attitude and well-informed nature of this 100-minute documentary.Bell certainly did a commendable job of covering all of the ground and getting as many relevant opinions (for his documentary) when it came to the pros and cons of regular steroid use (and, in some cases, the inevitable disastrous effects of this drug's prolonged use, too).

A challenging, very interesting documentary that is both personal and about societal issues. Chris Bell and his two brothers have all used steroids to help build their bodies. Chris has stopped, but his brothers have continued. This ambitious documentary takes on two issues at once, tying them together at the end. (Although this construction does make for some muddy patches in the middle, where the film's POV becomes a bit unclear.) First, the movie is a rejoinder to the knee jerk anti-steroid movement that (Bell argues pretty convincingly) has demonized a substance that is a lot less dangerous than we've been led to believe and certainly less so than alcohol, cigarettes, or sky-diving, all of which are legal, if dangerous personal choices. Bell points out the hypocrisy that we allow all sorts of other 'performance enhancing' but dangerous practices – like Air Force pilots being allowed to take Dexedrine to keep going, or models staving themselves. At the same time we sense Bell's ambivalence about the drug and his brothers' continued use of it. And ultimately we come to understand why. Bell is questioning the bigger issue of an America that says if you aren't the biggest, the strongest, the smartest, the richest, the most beautiful, you're somehow deficient. A country that has such scorn for athletes doing whatever it takes to win, also creates a 'do whatever it takes to win' mentality in life. How much we wink at airbrushed photos of models, politicians who lie and make up facts, people who use plastic surgery to look young and beautiful, etc. These are important issues, and by dealing with how they personally they effected himself and his family, Bell manages to avoid coming off preachy or holier than thou. He's just trying to make sense of the mixed messages we've ail grown up with' "Play fair" but "America loves a winner and hates a loser".