American Empire

This is a great documentary, featuring various experts who are not! funded by corrupt companies. The negative review by amanda-purington just shows me, that she sure does not appreciate truthful documentaries, which this one definitely is - the truth, for her as for the many, is far too unacceptable. The voice of the woman commentating is a bit off, that's true, everything else is TOP, making this doc one of the must see docs!!!!

First of all, when I got to this page the reviews were filtered by "best," the only best review was written by one of the writers/producers, which should tell you something. I'm sorry to say something disparaging about someone else's piece of work, but it just isn't a high quality documentary. I have watched quite a few documentaries, and this one was probably one of the worst, yet. If you are one of the writers of the film and yours is the only 5-star review, that isn't a great sign. I thought this was a waste of my hard- earned money. My husband and I really enjoy documentaries, and we just couldn't get into this. 15 minutes in, and we just had to shut it off. I honestly congratulate myself for sticking with it and making it that far (but also totally regret the waste of time). A big part of the problem was the style. The woman's low voice, the flashing of random images that have negative connotations (skull and crossbones, etc.)... It made this "documentary" seem very amateurish. Full of conspiracy-theories, and not in a thoughtful way (more like in the way that false flag people are convinced that 9/11 and the Holocaust never happened.... i.e. insane and without any credibility). If I watch a documentary, I'm doing it because I want to learn something. I want to see another perspective. I want a thoughtful presentation of that perspective. I don't enjoy so much sensationalism. It muddles any point you are trying to make. This documentary was created for people who aren't capable of critical thinking and who need images of skulls and crossbones flashed at them, so that they'll know how they're supposed to be feeling about the subject matter that is being presented to them. My advice to the writers is to have more faith in people's abilities to understand that you are trying to tell them something is good or bad. And fire your effects crew/person, or whoever it was who thought that it was a good idea to flash skull images and violent images at viewers, while they simultaneously listen to a woman's purposefully creepy- sounding voice spouting conspiracy theories. Super cheesy. Get out of the documentary-making business, I beg you.

I am Jack Tucker the Producer of American Empire and I feel the previous review is mean spirited and not representative of the film.

(R)evolution in Film: Patrea Patrick's American Empire: An Act of Collective Madness "American Empire: An Act of Collective Madness" sheds light on the manner that the corporate controlled nation is holding out the genetically modified carrot to the masses rather than the flame of truth. Yet, here it is, a documentary film conceived, researched, written and narrated with the newly emerging feminine voice. Patrea Patrick's unifying vision innovates the documentary into a holistic, integral feminine form by weaving interconnected threads into an awakened tapestry depicting what has gone so terribly wrong in the United States of America. Patrea Patrick projects the light of the feminine capable of giving birth to a new society. "No one had stepped forward and exposed the spider web of corruption that is destroying our planet and ruining our lives," she told me. "Once the curtain is pulled back, this corruption can be seen for what it is. That is what made it so interesting to do this film." American Empire: An Act of Collective Madness had its global premiere at the Abu Dhabi Film Festival last week. Like a strategically timed missile, this (r)evolutionary film is headed to the United States just in time for the American elections. The film speaks with a single female voice, the filmmaker's own, yet contains the multitudes in its astounding variety of world thinkers analyzing aspects of a spiritually, economically and politically ruined America held hostage by sinister forces. "It is a big story and no one had connected the dots of what and whom controls our economics, our resources and the world," Patrick told me. "So, I put it into a film that can teach us to stop being taken down this path of no return." Patrick spent five years on the film, three on research and two in the writing, filming and editing with her producer, Jack Tucker (above), as her sole support. "The future is what we make it. I couldn't face my kids when they ask what were you doing when this all came down. Action taken now can be the defining moment. This film connects the dots of the spider web of corruption destroying our planet and ruining our lives." I met Patrick at the Inn of the Seventh Ray when I was living in Topanga Canyon last spring. As we were eating the purest cuisine this side of the Garden of Eden, she told me about her film and followed up with an email that resulted in my appearing at Jack Tucker's office for a private screening: "This film is for all the people out there who eat, and think. We are putting a film out there that opens our eyes to what is happening in our country: how we are the enablers and the victims. We need a film like this to get corporations out of the government and the people and community back in to making the decisions. This film connects the dots. It shows that our Declaration of Independence now means Dependence On Corporations and our Bill Of Rights means Rights for Corporations." Patrick's feminine voice, in an automated delivery that mirrors an unawakened America, is what makes American Empire: An Act of Collective Madness so memorable. This is ironic, because when we met, the filmmaker was actively pursuing...

Through this act of claiming her owning the final cut, Patrick has broken through into new terrain by directing an awakened female voice to very source of America's malaise: corporate control over the economy, food, environment, politics and democracy itself. Author Dale Berry told the filmmaker as much, after seeing the film. "The film is so well articulated. I am so grateful that you are speaking for the rest of us with a voice large enough to be heard."

I feel this better describe the film.