Running with the Devil: The Wild World of John McAfee

How incompetent can you be? Then to make matters worse, they spent the remainder of the time with these daf setup shots and B roll of people chopping wood or this and that - PALEESE - just admit that u don't have any relevant footage or worthwhile interviews and call it what it is - (I'll leave that up to yall)

This is not one of those documentaries that if you just stick with it, will eventually makes sense or get better.

It's just a bunch of crap footage they quickly patched together without putting in enough effort to make it flow logically. It's hard to believe that the majority of footage used was shot by a professional. It was way too long for the very narrow focus they presented. The snippets of the ghostwriter were interesting, but completely out of place. He probably wasn't too happy to see the end product he contributed to.

The final scene with the girlfriend was just insulting to the audience. Then again, for those of us dumb enough to sit through the entire thing we probably deserved it.

Done correctly, this could've been an interesting and entertaining documentary.

Netflix is full of these lately... No structure, poor editing and story building. I left with more questions than answers, and it's not because it was so thought provoking. If you make a documentary, for heaven's sake - have a clear idea of what you're trying to say. The only advantage here is the proximity to the eccentric protagonist. But if you just finished a documentary and your first thought is "man, someone should really make a good documentary about this" - that's not a good sign...

As someone who was previously very tied into and intrigued by the almost bond villan-like history of John McAfee, I was initially very excited to see a first-hand account of his endeavors at a personal level.

Overall, I felt that the actual storytelling and timeline of this documentary left a lot to desire and more questions than answers. A lot of the content focused more or less on the storytellig of the documentarians who followed him rather than making McAfee the focal point of of the story.

The overall structure and format of the documentary also seemed all over the place and seemed to follow a plot line and just pivot to something else. For instance, the ghostwriter who essentially knows his life story first-hand was given only a few minutes of screentime while being a great source for his background and history.

Candidly, I think this documentary would have been more effective as a 4 episode mini-series that spends more time developing and diving into the context of WHO John McAfee actually was on top of more context rather than constant sound bites and clips that don't really provide much context.

A documentary or an agglomeration of home videos from an eccentric millionaires yacht? The story had no flow and no message, just a few guys trying to make money off the fact they dedicated their professional careers to following McAfee around.