1/10
A very un-researched hoax, weakly disguised as a documentary.
19 January 2011
Warning: Spoilers
If you're thinking of viewing this movie to educate yourself on the Paul McCartney is dead conspiracy, do yourself a favour... use Google instead. The results will be more accurate. What the producers of this film failed to do was any kind of research whatsoever. From the pathetically fake Liverpool accent of the alleged George Harrison on the tape to the mixed up time lines, this whole production just doesn't have a clue! For starters, 3 of the albums containing songs and cover art that are used as evidence for the theory were all recorded and released prior to the alleged date of death. Add to this that both of Paul's parents were supposedly present at his funeral even though his mother died long before the Beatles had even formed, mixed in with Heather Mills being the woman responsible for his death, 2 years before she was even born... the misinformation provided is mind boggling. The whole story is centered on Beatles USA album releases and takes no account of the UK album releases. For those who aren't aware, the Beatles released all their albums for UK release and Capitol records in the USA later released their own dissected versions for the American market. It's as if the producers weren't even aware that these songs and albums existed elsewhere prior to the US releases. A simple Google search would have shown them that Abbey Road was recorded after Let It Be, but they chose to go by release dates stating that Let It Be was their last recording. The real Harrison would have known that, without the need to Google. Later on in the film a Youtube video is shown where George Harrison, being interviewed by the Australian media, is distinctly saying "Faul" (for False Paul) instead of "Paul", yet if you look up the interview yourself on Youtube you discover he's actually saying "Paul" every time with a very pronounced P. I think by the end of the film they'd realised no one was going to take them seriously, so they started doctoring photos of Paul in Photoshop, giving him an almost Pinocchio style nose and bucked teeth on pictures that are all freely available on the internet in non-doctored form. Had they made this a documentary on the theory it might have been a credible film. Marketed as the truth though, it doesn't hold water. I'm giving this one two thumbs down!
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