Just perfect...

a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

The biggest problem with this movie is it’s a little better than you think it might be, which somehow makes it worse. As in, it takes itself a bit too seriously, which makes most of the movie feel kind of dull.

A thoughtful, deep film about young men who were dealt tough cards. The way they deal with this and make sense of a world they know so little about is moving and fascinating. A stark reminder of the power abuses that exist today.

This might well be the worst 'documentary' of cult kids I've ever seen. It may as well be some episode of Jack Black's 'Documentary Now!', it's that bad. That said, I'm SGA: a cult kid. This 'film' is absolutely wretched. The 'film-makers' should go back to Brooklyn or wherever they are from and never do this again. The problems: there is, among cult kids, what I have grown to call the Persistence of Belief: that is, the exiting cult kids retain the basic beliefs while experimenting with the outside world; in this case, the extreme Mormon beliefs these kids were raised with are only, and I mean ONLY, magnified expressions of LDS doctrine, and when these kids exit, they exit into only a slightly less virulent version of what they grew up with. Nowhere is it explored if they have changed anything except their desire for broadened sexual opportunities. There is a very telling 'interview' in which a kid describes some vague bad guy as 'That guy who killed those kids', and the alleged film-makers interject, 'Hitler'? and the kid politely agrees with them: in fact the person he is referring to is Bill Clinton. The Waco Branch Davidian Compound crime sent shock waves throughout splinter groups in the USA and THAT is what that kid was referring to, and these morons knew nothing about it. This is an excellent example of how some people should not be allowed cameras. Worst rating. Terrible. Awful. For the ignorant.

and Sons of Perdition is documented proof. This piece of work is excellent, one of the best documentaries I've seen. The 85 minutes I spent watching felt more like fifteen. Almost from the beginning I became unaware of the cameras. Speaking strictly as a non- professional film critic, only someone who enjoys watching documentaries and movies of multiple genres, this film should have won numerous awards. It was riveting, eye-opening, gratitude inducing, educating, heart wrenching and easily held my attention to the end. It's so difficult to grasp the kind of mental bondage that would hold anyone captive to such a bizarre lifestyle, particularly the women who are treated as commodities, used and abused for the men's pleasure. The Jason Bailey review in the critics section did a great job summing it up.

This gripping documentary chronicles two years in the lives of three teenage boys who escape from the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints compound in Colorado City, AZ known as "The Crick." Warren Jeffs, known as The Prophet, rules over this cult and exerts enormous power over his followers—they are permitted no contact with the outside world, they may read no magazines or books, the boys must work at dangerous jobs from an early age, and the girls must submit to the will of the men, often marrying male relatives who are much older. The cult, which also practices polygamy, is a splinter group of the more mainstream Mormon Church. The boys in this film—Sam, Joe, and Bruce—try to build new lives for themselves. Escaping from The Crick separates them from their families and leaves them with little financial or emotional support. We witness their struggle to find their places in the outside world and to help their family members escape from The Crick as well. This film clearly illustrates the effects of the emotional child abuse that fanatical religion can have on its victims. Although filmed in a relatively objective, documentary style, this movie elicits a strong emotional response. Recommended for anyone with an interest in religious movements, cults, or the cultural phenomenon of the LDS.