I criticised Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11” for being biased but that movie has nothing on the one-sided narrative of “Bowling For Columbine”. Moore blasts us with a ton of conspiracy theories about the American government that seem to have no real relation to anything to do with firearms.

Michael Moore goes around America (and briefly visits Canada) to try to uncover why America has so many more gun-related murders (proportionally) than other developed nations such as France and the UK. Large parts of the film focus on the shooting at Columbine but somehow Moore manages to get it round to be the fault of American foreign policy.

Moore is dull and fairly unpleasant. At least in “Fahrenheit 9/11”, we didn’t get to see that much of him. Interviewees include victims of Columbine, politicians, death metal musician Marilyn Manson and Hollywood legend and NRA leader Charlton Heston (“Ben-Hur”). While I fairly enjoyed the interviews with Manson and Heston, some of the interviews with dangerous individuals seemed ridiculous as one openly discussed illegally dealings firearms and another claimed that he was disappointed he didn’t make it to the top of a bomb threat list. Moore also finds the time to interview Matt Stone, who is one of the creators of “South Park”. Shortly, after the interview, there is a cartoon done in a similar fashion to “South Park” but Stone was so annoyed and the attempt to make it look like he was responsible for the cartoon, he got his revenge by depicting Moore in “Team America”.

“Bowling For Columbine” is as one-sided as you get and all the conspiracy theorist stuff just made more frustrated than anything else. Moore never seems to take into account that politicians, businessmen and any other high-ranking individual might just be incompetent, he instead likes to depict them as moustache-twirling villains. I would’ve enjoyed a sensible debate on firearms in the US but what we get is an immature swipe at gunowners and politicians.