Newman

No matter if Mr. Newman's machine "invention" was nonsense or not, the legal account is REAL and factual. Reviews said yes, experts picked by the patent office said ye, but he was denied! Why? This is what leads to conspiracy theories and Mr. Conrad should be more careful in his reviews. My 10 is to counter his "missing the point". Why didn't physicists kill this "nonsense" when the had the chance - too lazy, too busy or couldn't find something wrong?

Combine this movie with "Invalidate" another about the US patent BS and you have a compelling view of cognitive dysfunction among scientists and the IP legal system

What people say in the reviews is that there is no science in the film. That is true. But that's not the point. The point is that no one it seems will give him a straight answer - that he has an electric motor and has failed to account for energy balance - but on the other hand, Mr. Newman would surely have never accepted a straight answer. The film is a strange macabre dance between Newman and bureaucracy and lawyers in which everyone comes off badly, and in a sense, so do we all.

PS, I am a physicist, and there is nothing to the machine that cannot be found in an electric shaver.

Joseph Newman is often portrayed as a kind of poster child for the struggle of the "outsider" vs. The scientific establishment and in this oddly unbalanced documentary, that idea is generally supported..right up until the final 30 minutes or so, when a kind of big reveal occurs. I won't spoil it, but to really understand what's really going on here you must watch the last 30 minutes of the film!

With that said, I think that a much better and more balanced documentary could be made of this man's life and the role and responsibility that media has in reporting what are ofttimes delusional or outright fraudulent claims.

It's a clean scam, but kind of good made as a documentary for less educated people. Everybody loves conspiration theories, but this one goes a little far. Just forget about it.

I originally skipped watching this doc when I thought it was just a promotional piece for this guy, but the last 30 minutes were genuinely entertaining and definitively answered the question of whether his ideas were ever actually valid. The psychology of this conman is put on full display, in a few tense minutes a lifetime of questions and doubt are crystallized, the mystery revealed.

The last 30 minutes finishes off showing him having been semi-famous during the 80's, doing tons of press, having followers, appealing to congress, even going on Carson... then it jumps over 20 years later to 2015. After his current prototype is demonstrated, the documentarians eventually set him up with a sincere and credible investor to finally bring his idea to reality. Then at age 77 we see Newton's ugly-crazy-violent side come up where he starts a dramatic rant about not wanting to be controlled or forgotten and conclusively discredits himself once and for all.