An American sets out with his motorbike to find both adventure and his sense of manhood, leading him on an extraordinary journey he could not have imagined, including fighting in the Libyan Revolution.
Adventurer, narcissist or both? Marshall Curry’s riveting study of a momma’s boy turned freedom fighter never editorialises, leaving us to decide.
A strange story that's no less disturbing for its unbalanced telling.
It isn’t convincing.
Some of the footage succeeds in presenting the real dangers VanDyke put himself in, but it’s telling that the most potent moment is the camera-phone video of a blood-drenched Gaddafi being caught by rebels while trying to flee. And it’s footage that neither the filmmaker nor his subject can lay any claim on.
A wannabe American action hero takes up arms in Libya in a sporadically arresting documentary.
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