Facts, rather than scare tactics get this film extra marks and makes it a worthwhile watch. Davis Guggenheim’s An Inconvenient Truth the no nonsense documentary relies on factual data mostly presented in slide show to put across its point where pie-charts would have hardly looked any dreadful anywhere else.
The 2006 documentary has Al Gore presenting the data on slide-shows unlike apocalyptic mayhem other movies tend to show. The transitions are not only power point but are the portrayal of what we have done to our planet and are moving towards the doomsday of not the Armageddon but of global climatic meltdown (in some cases, literally).
The Oscar winning documentary then has Al Gore present the audience with real facts in a kind of lecture format that goes on to mention the past, current and future circumstances and also documents Gore’s thoughts as he goes on to express his concern of how present generation is failing to see what it is walking into.
The film is criticized my many as being not a movie but a lecture which depicts just the point of view of the director and Al Gore. A need is felt for them to change their way of thinking and approach the topic in a different way which would be even more productive in achieving its goal of global understanding and cooperation in saving the planet.