Quartile rating: 4.5/10 · 1 rating
"If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?" Across the globe and in America, people in 2008 hungered for a leader who would unite and lift us from economic turmoil and war. True to Americas ideals, they invested their hope in a new kind of president, Barack Obama. What they didn't know is that Obama is a man with a past, and in powerful ways that past defines him--who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America and the world.
A politically charged documentary by Dinesh D'Souza that presents a speculative and heavily ideological portrait of Obama's motivations rooted in anti-colonial theory. The plot is structured more as polemic than rigorous journalism, relying on selective sourcing and conjecture. Cinematography is functional but unremarkable for a documentary of this type. Novelty is limited — the film follows the familiar format of partisan political documentaries (think Michael Moore in reverse), and its core thesis about postcolonial influence, while provocative, is not rigorously developed. The ending, predicting a dystopian 2016 under a second Obama term, aged particularly poorly as nearly none of its predictions materialized, severely undermining its credibility in retrospect.