Kim Dotcom: Caught In The Web (2017)

Maybe you've heard of MegaUpload before? No? Maybe you've heard of the man behind it? The hacker? The innovator? The political candidate?

For those who don't know about Kim Dotcom, this might not be a movie for you. You might want to read up on the Internet first, and when you're ready: take a trip down memory lane with one of its heaviest influences of recent years, a man with a fascinating albeit criminal (so they say) history, with an affinity for starting interesting projects, the ability to make money off of them, and recently: the man fighting a legal battle against the US for six years straight; still going strong.

It's a battle that never seems to end, and one where I definitely side with this guy. I did so before this documentary, and I do so after it as well, even after all I've learned of his dubious past. Is he a good guy? Who knows. He's a mystery. But he is doing good things, and that's what matters the most.

I could expand this into a whole new MU rant, but it'd be better to just watch this documentary instead. It brings up both sides. It paints a better picture of the bigger picture than I'd be able to paint myself. Bias, you know. I'm pro pretty much everything this guy seems to stand for. I've known about this movie a long time too, just took a while to get around to!

It's not the greatest documentary ever - it doesn't have the greatest visuals or narrative, but it does what it's supposed to: it tells the story of Kim Dotcom, philanthropist and pioneer, and is - in a time where the fight for our right to personal integrity and freedom is both fought and ignored every day, mostly in silence, on and off line - more relevant than ever. Most important movie of the year? To me it's definitely one of them.

 rated 5/5: friggin awesome