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Population Zero (2016) is a English movie. Julian T. Pinder,Adam Levins has directed this movie. Rob McGillivray,Duane Murray,Matt O'Brien,Julian T. Pinder are the starring of this movie. It was released in 2016. Population Zero (2016) is considered one of the best Crime,Mystery,Thriller movie in India and around the world.
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 ...
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Stolen premise. Shameless.
The premise of this film was taken directly from the best selling novel called Free Fire. The highly sophisticated legal premise in this film does not match the juvenile nature of the rest of this movie. Free Fire's author wrote the following on Rotten Tomatoes: "This "documentary" is a poor re-hash of a novel I wrote In 2007 entitled FREE FIRE that was published by Penguin Random House. In my novel, a fictional murder that occurs in a remote section of Yellowstone Park where the murderer goes free because of an obscure Constitutional loophole. The novel was inspired by an essay by a brilliant Michigan State law professor named Brian Kalt who was credited in my novel but not Population Zero. Free Fire is still in print and it's been translated in over 27 languages. What happens in the book is wholly fictional. I was contacted several months ago by a volunteer at a film festival who screened Pinder's and Levins's Population Zero. The volunteer said it closely mirrored Free Fire but without any attribution. That festival rejected the submission. After consulting lawyers we learned that plagiarism has to be literal, i.e. replicating actual lines of prose or dialog. Legalities aside, the premise, plot, structure, hook, and conclusion are strikingly similar to my novel. Anyone who has read Free Fire would agree. No reason to see the film, though. Except for the premise it really isn't very good." C.J. Box
When Film imitates art imitating life
There was a lot of thought put into this movie and I think most will see that this is not an actual documentary. That being said, it doesn't make it any less of a movie. So while this isn't exactly what some people advertise it to be, this is so close to being that, that whatever you think of it, won't really matter. Well apart from the fact that some people will question your intelligence maybe. But this only showcases how good the work of the filmmaker at hand is here. It also showcases how crazy some laws are and maybe they need to change. There have been faux documentaries before and there will be quite a few after this, but the style of this, might make it more accessible to a broader audience than some other outputs have been. Whatever the case (no pun intended), this is gripping and told very well
Please ignore the bad reviews
This is a great movie. If you like mocumentry style films you will love this one. I went into this movie not knowing a lot about it and I suggest not watching any trailers or reading about the plot. What I will tell you is that the subject matter is original and it is one of the better mocumentry style files I have seen. I even had to google it afterwards just to be 100% certain it wasn't a real documentary. The movie itself is not scary but as it wound along and started to reveal itself I became quite creeped out about the fact that the idea behind this movie is real. Definitely worth a watch if you want something a bit different with an edge of truth.
Well done nothing
This film is made documentary style and quite well. It's very slow burn style I liked and the scenes are beautiful. It's the story that can't carry the film. If I want watch TV for an hour, I don't wan't to watch fake documentary. Yes, it has some drama an thrill but it's only purpose seems to be there because it has to. Wasted an hour for a very short story stretched unnecessarily. Slow burn is OK, but it must deliver. Four stars because it was technically well done.
An interesting little film
The concept of a fake documentary is an interesting one. The whole time I was watching 'Population Zero' I kept thinking to myself, would I be enjoying this more if it was a real documentary? The answer is of course yes. The biggest problem with the fake side of it is that every time it tries to take itself seriously it just comes across embarrassingly. When it focuses on the story and mystery element it's fine, however when it tries to get heart-felt interview answers out of terrible actors it is nothing short of cringe-worthy. The story is certainly the strongest part of 'Population Zero'. Quite an interesting plot line is developed and it drives the movie along well. Director and star Julian T. Pinder also quite impressed me. He had just enough charisma to carry the film. Some of the dialogue he had to work with wasn't particularly well written at times, so his acting can come across clunky on occasion. I don't think that was entirely his fault though. There's a half decent film hidden somewhere in here. Just some slightly better pacing and some script tweaks and this could have been something special.