Kimjongilia

Yes, we get it. Kim Jong-Il sucks, and North Korea is a horrible place to live. I tend to think that this information is known broadly enough that a documentary would need to get pretty specific to really add something to the discussion.

Now, there are some horrifying personal stories behind these interviews. One man was born in a prison camp and kept there doing forced labor until he escaped at age 24. That's a story that deserves to be told, but it deserves more than a choppy 3 minute interview punctuated by random scenes of modern dance commissioned by the director to fill time.

It's only a 75 minute movie in the first place, and literally 15 minutes were spent on modern dance filler. I get that you want to make an emotional appeal, but you can do it a lot better by actually giving your subjects time to tell a coherent story.

Earns one star back just because the fragments of the stories they do manage to get across are really, really gripping.