Fast Food Nation is the second movie from director
Richard Linklater this year (the other being
A Scanner Darkly) and is a rather damning movie into the investigation of the fast food industry. Unlike
Super Size Me, it's not shot in a documentary style but is instead a fictionalized approach, telling the story from the pont of view of the people invovled in the industry. Here are the critics reviews...
"They say you don't want to see what goes on behind the scenes in the making of sausage or politics. Fast Food Nation blends the two, and the result may not be a very good movie, but it certainly is effectively disgusting". - Tom Long - Detroit News
" sloppy, overarching fiction that tries to do too many things at once. It's like a three-ring circus in which none of the acts is terribly interesting". - Randy Cordova - Arizona Republic
"In the end, viewers waiting for an emotional and/or dramatic payoff will be disappointed. As a call-to-arms, it's highly sympathetic but surprisingly mild-mannered." - Todd McCarthy - Variety
"One leaves the theater certain what Linklater's theme was but uncertain why it was presented so ineffectively". - James Berardinelli - Reelviews Fast Food Nation is currently scoring a 49% rotten rating on
Rotten Tomatoes with most crictics commenting that their is a good idea in the movie somewhere, but it's not executed particularly well. Richard Linklater's movies are always an acquired taste and are very rarely well reviewed, so i'm guessing if you liked his previous work...you will probably enjoy this too. Fast Food Nation currently has no U.K. release date. source -
rotten tomatoes