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Stylish but barely mediocre overall

Brilliant and touching

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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.

This movie is really depressing, but also realistic. It shows us what is happening with the worlds climate, and it shows that we need to do something now, if we wants the world to change. I think its great that this documentary, shows us what is happening to the world, but i also think that the movie is long-drawn-out, and maybe they could have made it more interesting.

I just finished watching the movie and I paid attention to the point it was trying to convey, but all I saw was that the Vegans were pushing their agenda. They preach that meat is the cause for how the world is right now. They talk about water consumption, population growth and therefore more meat is required. So they say do not eat meat, well OK, what if the humans stop eating meat... What then? Plants need water to grow, the more water a plant intakes the bigger it grows. All these people talking about population growth in the movie... well I am sure they have kids of their own. So why talk about population growth if they themselves are contributing to the growth. Pollution from engines will take over and now what... should we stop driving? I am sure they won't say that then. If crops were to be grown at a large scale in order to feed all the humans on this planet they could not use that same amount of land. They are right about needing lesser land to grow crops, but when the meat is taken away to go Vegan, just the demand alone for the vegetables would probably take up just as much if not more land than cattle take up. It is just a Vegan Agenda with good information, but yet they seem to realize that crops right now are not the main source of food. If crops were the main food source, now you would be including all the electricity, chemicals, land, and water that will be needed in order to produce the billions of pounds of vegetation needed for the human population, because we cannot survive off of only one vegetable, we would require several of them, and they all cannot be grown in the same plot of land or at the same time. Each Vegetable requires different amounts of just the few items I stated.

I work as a researcher in the energy sector. CO2 emissions are literally a part of my job. Everybody agrees we are emitting too much emissions. The movie tells lie after lie about greenhouse gas emissions. Yes its true that methane is about 25 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas, but even taking that into account the Enteric Fermentation (Farts and burps) of cattle accounts for 3 percent of the total. While the energy sector emits 29% and the transport 27%. That is why no one is talking about it! because we have to first focus on bringing down the emissions of the sectors that emit a lot more CO2 equivalent gases. The part about destroying the forests and the environment for our animals could be true. But the part of the water is another time way over exaggerated. Yes a burger needs a lot of water to be produced, but most of that water falls right out of the sky as rain.After 20 minutes I just couldn't take the lies anymore they invent numbers like cattle accounts for 50% of all emissions...I believe in improving the environment and that we have to change a lot to combat with climate change. But what they are proposing is the same as his example of the shower. Not eating meat isn't going to help at all compared to improving the emissions of transport and improving the emissions of the energy sector, the sector that emits the most CO2. So lets invest in Carbon capture and storage for coal and CCGT plants, install more renewable generation, all buy electric cars, and that's the way to solve the problem. Not becoming vegetarian.I was so furious about the numbers they were claiming that I really had to write a review. (first review ever on IMDb by the way)

In conclusion it is an interesting and compelling movie but not what a documentary should be in regards to objectivity. I encourage everybody to look for cowspiracy fake check after watching it in order to not share missinformation due to the movie. Nobody should be convinced on the base of a crooked argument, the author thought different.For a deeper review read below: After watching the film i was quite upset and thought about changing my life for the good. The film is interesting, provoking, pays attention to a subject which is neglected by mainstream films etc., but in the end the numbers in the film a wrong. The film maker either wanted to convince the audience instead of showing the status quo of research regarding the topic or didn't look well enough into the numbers he is showing. The numbers used were published by 2 researchers in a highly debatable paper which hasn't been peer reviewed and purposely suggests a higher impact of methane produced by the livestock industry on climate change than the one produced by other industries. Therefore, the paper concludes a relative impact of around 51% on climate change for the livestock industry. A conservative and objective source like the paper "LIVESTOCK'S LONG SHADOW" published by FOA of the UN in 2006 results in a relative impact of around 14,7%. The film didn't cover this, instead it stated the first number as a fact, which it obviously isn't. The audience doesn't get enough information and opinion pluralism to create an own opinion but is convinced that the arguments of the film are true and everyone critiquing it is doing it due to his or her own agenda.