Review | Film review: Where to Invade Next – Michael Moore thinks big for America

3/5 stars

In spite of its headline-grabbing title, Where to Invade Next has little to do with war. Michael Moore’s idea for it is to visit a few European countries to see what they do better than the United States, so he can show the folks back home how they can improve their country.

Having covered health care already, the director focuses this time on workers’ rights and civic rights: open prisons in Norway, the right to free education in Finland, the legal right to take time off work in Italy, and so on.

Moore does a good job of introducing US viewers to different perspectives, and the movie is aimed at a home audience who might not be aware that countries like Slovenia even exist, let alone know what they do differently. But his documentary film is flawed because it makes the US look like a third-world dictatorship, which it isn’t, and Europe seem like a workers’ paradise, which it also isn’t.