Fresh
The faux press conferences and perverse inventions (SurvivaBall, anyone?) that are included here highlight corporate greed and governmental shortsightedness as shrewdly as ever.
Sheri Linden, Los Angeles Times
Overview
The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they search for refuge across a crumbling world.
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60%
Tomatometer
Fresh
As usual, the mood is genial and the anticorporate politics refreshingly blunt.
Ben Sachs, Chicago Reader
Fresh
Although this latest documentary is, in large part, simply more of the same stuff we saw in the earlier films, there's also a lot of background material here about Servin and Vamos that makes this outing a bit more interesting.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh
"The Yes Men Are Revolting," their third film, has a personal poignancy that is missing in the forerunners, "The Yes Men" (2003) and "The Yes Men Fix the World" (2009).
Stephen Holden, New York Times
Fresh
Laughing at the apocalypse is hard work.
Soren Anderson, Seattle Times
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