There's a horrifying train wreck quality to documentarian Chris Smith's feature-length interview with Michael Ruppert, former LAPD detective, investigative reporter, CIA whistleblower.

| Feb 17, 2021

[Collapse] is as much a backwards look at recent history, as well as a prediction for the coming change.

| Aug 22, 2017

A staggering film about a man convinced he's the only poor son of a gun who gets it ... and how, as he grows to realize he might have actually been right all those years, it destroys him

| Original Score: A | Jun 22, 2013

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 18, 2011

If he's even half right, the world our children and grandchildren will inherit doesn't bear thinking about.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 6, 2010

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 2, 2010

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 1, 2010

Unearths the flawed humanity behind the apocalyptic theorising.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 30, 2010

Chris Smith's documentary centres on a long and disquieting interview with Michael Ruppert, a radical American activist on a mission to expose the "peak oil" cover-up...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2010

Smith treats Ruppert both as exhibit and patient, and he comes across as an angry yet compassionate man, secure in his convictions but lost in his emotions.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2010

There are clear parallels with former US vice-president Al Gore's arguments in An Inconvenient Truth, only Smith's film makes less use of showbiz-style graphics.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2010

Intelligently probed by director Chris Smith and always compelling to watch, the chain-smoking Ruppert's vision of the future should be on everyone's viewing list.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2010

Rich on rhetoric, if sometimes a little loopy in the ideas beneath.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2010

Perhaps he's worth listening to? Well, up to a point.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2010

Take Michael Ruppert with several thousand grains of salt, but take him seriously, at least for 80 minutes. Chris Smith does, and thats what makes Collapse so riveting.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 22, 2010

Chris Smith and his documentary team smartly focus their attention on the world fuel crisis, leaving many other issues discussed by [Michael] Ruppert to the deleted scenes portion of the DVD.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 8, 2010

The only problem with "Collapse" is Smith's failure to prod Ruppert a little harder, especially on the subject of his 9/11 Truther status.

| Original Score: B+ | May 30, 2010

Ruppert's deep sighs, dramatic pauses and a slight sneer on his lips say that he doesn't care what you think because he knows he's right, but he forgives your ignorance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 12, 2010

You might disagree with every point made during Collapse but it's unnerving all the same.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 27, 2010

| Original Score: 5/5 | Jan 27, 2010