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I love cult documentaries, and watched tons of them. But this was by far the most boring and least interesting one that I have ever came across. I gave up after 5th episode because of extreme boredom. I was getting mad at three episode stretched Netflix documentaries, but this one is much more worse, as it has nine 1 hour episodes. Nine hours for a story which could have been told at a maximum of two hours. I don't get why it has a quite high rating. There are many much more interesting cult documentaries out there. If you want to waste nine hours of your life, be my guest. But if your time is valuable, just watch a better cult documentary.

The footage is awesome for sure. But other than that, the biased narrative is very disappointing for me. It focuses mainly on the sins of the communist side, also exaggerating it as much as possible. But at the same time, the sins of colonial powers are hardly mentioned and even diminished. When I learned that this is actually a French documentary, things became more clear. I have been to Vietnam, witnessed the marks of horrible atrocities committed by French colonial powers. Yet those are hardly mentioned at this docuseries. I am not saying the communists were innocent, they did plenty of bad things. But focusing only on communist atrocities and diminishing colonial ones is not ethical in my opinion.

First of all let me say that I am a 45 years old die hard metalhead. And although I'm quite old, I enjoy watching School of Rock from time to time. But while trying to watch this movie, I found myself too often losing interest and playing with my phone. Movie is all over the place, too long, there is no character depth, doesn't really know what to tell, almost all teen movie cliches are there. I am guessing other metalheads are giving high ratings to this yet another weak Netflix production because it features great music and metal gods. But that is not enough to make a good metal movie, if you want to watch a good one try Heavy Trip.