i know i wasted 90 mins of my life.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

Opinion based on episode 1: While the topic is interesting and relevant, this film presents it in a completely one sided view - European car makers. What about all the rest of the car makers, especially the American ones? It seems like this "documentary" has a very clear agenda to harm the European car makers. They bring in Hitler, they talk about polluted air in kindergartens and how European car manufacturers cause deaths (like the Americans and others don't?) - all the classical elements of a negative propaganda. Disappointed in Netflix for allowing to show such biased views.

Starts out with one of the biggest scandals of all time. the VW diesel gate scandal. Unlike the other reviewer here, I think he is more butt hurt from the trump section of the documentary. However regardless of your political affiliations, the documentary brings up many interesting facts and can be viewed for enjoyment.Also as the previous reviewer brought up, the European government did state there was a loophole for car manufactures to emit harmful gasses only if it was to protect the engine and was not supposed to all the time. However the air quality tested in most cities came back multiple times higher than the legal limit more laws were to be put in effect and more strict, ie the Paris agreement.It the ethics committee for the white house was also interviewed and stated how grossly corrupt and unethical the trump admin was and therefore he had to resign. Not sure if the other reviewer made it that far.Regardless take everything with a grain of salt, may not suit what you think as good television. None the less interesting.

This is simply populism. The converted need more to feed their confirmation bias: yes, the sky is falling. The others will probably steer clear of this one. Meaning mostly good reviews as only true believes will follow it.And what is inside? Well, the usual. A shallow take on recent enough events so the audience won't even bother to check by having the fake impression: I know that. And the regular christian mantra: money is from Satan, profit is evil, the pure ones are the ones like you waiting for handouts.

There's a way to make a point about corporate greed and corruption in big business but this isn't it. The bulk of the documentary is decent and well researched but why bring Hitler into it (three times) and only vilify German auto-makers when the investigation has spread beyond that to Fiat-Chrysler, Ford and GM? The message comes through loud and clear enough without resorting to cheap slurs like this. I'm going to have to reassess Gibney's other documentaries in the light of this, which is a shame since I've liked them all so far, but there's no need at all to pile on the anti-German sentiments to such an extent. Be unbiased. Present the facts. Give us enough credit to be able to make up our own minds, Alex.