Mister Organ Reviews
Pretty uneventful, but a decent character study, nonetheless. I ended up fast-forwarding through large parts of it, as Organ's interrupting and droning on weighed on me (I can sympathize with David in that regard). Nowhere near as enthralling as 'Tickled'. I would not recommend this film to anyone who doesn't personally know Michael Organ, as it is a waste of time watching David try to craft a story out of a run-of-the-mill narcissistic liar's tall tales.
Farrier comes out as being a bit desperate and needy by the end at best….as a bit of a bully at worst. Overblown and trying to be something much bigger than what it is; a story about a pathetic little man.
Michael Organ was my next door neighbour 2008-2010. While I thought he was somewhat eccentric and unstable, I don’t think what happened to Farrier in his encounters with Michael warrants a doco. Clearly Michael isn’t the full quid and Farrier should’ve just left him alone.
Showing a guy who may or may not be on the straight and narrow does not a documentary make. This very much felt like something personal, and amounted to a lot of insinuations about bad behavior and not much of substance. There's lots of questionable people in the world, they don't all need documentaries about them. A waste of time.
One of the most boring documentaries I’ve ever seen! The story around Michael Organ is just not that interesting to justify an entire documentary film. At best this is barely interesting enough for a piece in a local newspaper or tabloid magazine. The filmmaker David Farrier seems desperate at times in attempting to make this Michael character seem evil and sinister but in reality he just seems like he has a slight mental illness and somewhat of an annoying guy. No twists no surprises just an annoying guy annoying people around him. The fact that David Farrier thought this was a story that he needed years to tell says more about him as a filmmaker than it does about the mentality ill Michael Organ. Don’t waste your time on this film it’s just not good.
This isn't a mind blowing documentary, it's easily something to put on in the background.
This is an extremely boring documentary about a weird guy, who annoyed everyone around him and harassed them with fantastical lies, but nothing really of substance. It felt like the filmmakers wanted to make a documentary about him and hoped he was more nefarious than he actually was, and when he turned out not to be that dangerous, they continued making the documentary anyways. Also, David Farrier ironically seems to trespass and harass others throughout the whole film, in an attempt to show the audience how Michael Organ illegally trespassed and harassed others.
Very intriguing. Love David Farrier
The topic did promise but the journalist is so boring, childishly dragging his voice wanting to add mystery to something quite obvious (I mean, he's doing a doc on a psychopath, what else is he expecting if not odd irrational behaviour?), and pretending he's shocked with his own "discoveries"… it just makes the whole thing quite annoying and boring to watch really.
Great profile of a random narcissistic sociopath in the wild. I've been around a lot of them in my life so this hit home. I think this movie is for me, and probably not for people who never encountered these types of people
Absolutely fascinating and also absolutely chilling. Reminded me somewhat of The Roommate from Hell episode featuring the guy who moved in with people and then squatted and refused to pay rent. Who thinks that one of the scariest things you could meet in this life is someone who has no scruples, is obsessed with dominating others and knows the law. I was honestly scared for - and am still concerned for - the well-being of the filmmaker. This is a person who is a pariah and will probably harass the director until the end of time. He is the human equivalent of herpes, once you come into contact with it, it never leaves you…consistently and intermittently returning to be a bother and to remind you that it's here to stay
I kept waiting for the "dark turn". It never comes. A film about a guy who is maybe not such a great person. Riveting.
Wow! I feel terrible for the Director, I could feel the "dark void," an hour into this doc. I can't imagine years, but thank you! I honestly had no clue people like that existed. I agree with the final victim, "it's possible he is a dark spirit…"
Filmmaker David Farrier comes across as condescending, naive, bigoted, cruel, and obsessive in his ironic quest to paint his subject, Michael Organ, as a "dangerous criminal narcissist" Farrier's conduct as a documentarian here is like the high school bully, who thinks if they call enough names and defame someone else's character repeatedly, it will make them popular or "better by comparison" Came away feeling bad for the subject, like his life would be better without this a-hole harassing him and slandering him! If the guy had truly done something horrible I'd see the point, but when the drama of the "documentary" becomes the behavior of the person with the camera, you've done it wrong.
An amusing, strange and rather personal documentary where filmmaker David Farrier is personally embroiled with the petty crimes and general idiocy of a scam artist . . . something that would inevitably happen making a film about a person with such sociopathic tendencies. After a phase falsely posing as an "entitled" Auckland socialite, Mr Organ then goes through various life events including jail, fraud, lies, more lies, issuing spurious traffic fines, assaulting people. A repeating theme of the film is the slightly vague portrayal of him as a person with a psychologically damaging personality, which becomes more concrete by the end of the movie. The film is, at heart, a movie about personal differences and bogus legal challenges from an annoying and dishonest individual, although Farrier intentionally dissolves the illusion of objectivity by showing himself interacting with the titular subject, for better and worse as things progress.
You cannot possibly consider this a decent documentary when for the most part it features the maker rambling on about the lack of information on his subject. To add insult to injury the subject does not seem at all interesting. He reminded me of a douche bag in a movie club I run. My guy has a ridiculous gray do and sounds like he's having a secret wank on screen voice, so it's different. But you get it. Organ has a bad demonic head dye job but is also a tosser. And also loves the sound of his own creamy voice.
Good psychological movie. Guys like Organ are everywhere.
Mr. Organ may be the most manipulative, insufferable s***c*** in New Zealand but, he isn't worthy of a documentary film. Hard to believe this movie is from the same guy who made Tickled, a truly bizarre and entertaining doc. Unfortunately Mister Organ is mundane and lame.
Was one of the most boring documentaries I've watched. I usually trust rotten tomatoes scores but this one really let me down
Don't be fooled by the other reviews. Aside from the film makers sincerity and some occasional amusement at Mr. Organ's megalomaniacal commentary this movie is a bore. Even with the sprinkling of colorful interviewees I fell asleep.