This documentary from the acclaimed director of American Movie, Chris Smith, explores radical thinker Michael Ruppert's apocalyptic vision of the future.
Can this man predict when your world will crumble? It's the shattering documentary that has been called superb (Entertainment Weekly), hypnotic and haunting (Time Magazine) and so masterfully made it's impossible to look away (AllMovie.com).
COLLAPSE is the story of Michael Ruppert, former Los Angeles police officer turned rogue reporter whose eerie prediction of the current financial crisis shocked millions. Now Ruppert is warning of a new meltdown, one rooted in oil, economics, and covert U.S. policies that are leading us all towards unprecedented global disaster. Is he a prophet who can clearly see the terrifying future, or a conspiracy theorist fueled by fear and paranoia?
And if Ruppert is right, can this slide into catastrophe be stopped? Experience this sometimes harrowing, often poignant and always riveting look into the mind of the ultimate outsider from filmmaker Chris Smith, the award-winning director of American Movie and The Yes Men.
Reviews
“I don't know when I've seen a thriller more frightening. I couldn't tear my eyes from the screen. Collapse is even entertaining, in a macabre sense. I think you owe it to yourself to see it.” Roger Ebert
“His well-rehearsed rhetoric is shockingly persuasive, and since the majority of his premises are verifiable, any weakness in his argument lies in inferences so terrifying that reasonable listeners may find themselves taking his advice and stocking up on organic seeds. (Those with no access to land can, postapocalypse, use them as currency.)” New York Times
“Unnervingly persuasive much of the time, and merely riveting when it's not.” Variety
“You may want to dispute Ruppert, but more than that you'll want to hear him, because what he says – right or wrong, prophecy or paranoia – takes up residence in your mind.” Entertainment Weekly
“A grueling peek at a doomsday prophet's rigorous mind but in a sly way also a compassionate look at the strain Ruppert endures from knowing he has only ever been right.” LA Times
“Even in a season of apocalyptic films, these facts are really, really scary.” Globe & Mail