Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee (2016)

What makes it different from others?

Am i the only one who thinks........Average?

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Not sure how, but this is easily one of the best movies all summer. Multiple levels of funny, never takes itself seriously, super colorful, and creative.

John McAfee is someone I never really gave a damn about. The only way I knew of his name before is documentary is because of his AntiVirus company. About half the way through this film it became abundantly clear from any objective standard, this was a hit piece. There are very serious allegations made in this documentary that don't get any push back whatsoever, not even something as simple as "McAfee denies the allegations" or "these allegations are so far unfounded". This film is well shot & edited, and that is where my praise for it ends. After watching the film I did some searching online and it turns out that the producer of the film is the same man who seems to have spent a large chunk of his career trying to defame & attack McAfee for his politics. Finding that out in addition to merely watching the movie and the way it very clearly tries to portray McAfee is a man of pure evil rather than being objective, that was enough to convince me that this is a documentary designed to ruin the life of a man.

Frightening to see how this man could travel to a poor country and establish himself effectively as a feudal lord and apparently engage in extensive criminal activity and then walk away as if it was just a bad holiday. I think the best line in the documentary is that by a local who knew him and said "he is as crazy as bat-shit" and if you watch the documentary most people will agree. The most heart breaking portion of the documentary is the scenes with the father of the man he allegedly murdered talking about how helpless he feels seeing this guy walking around Scot-free and running for president in the US whilst his son is dead. Well worth a watch.

5/12/18. A good documentary about John McAfee, the namesake of the very popular antivirus software. Behind the scenes he was totally something else, spending his fortune on who knows what on the island of Belize. Through a series of interviews with those who were involved with him during his time in Belize he sure was involved with some sleazy people and strange behavior. In the end, he gets away with it all. Why? He's McAfee.

This documentary is interesting and absolutely worth watching. I found the overall documentary somewhat weak, the story could have been told better and with more debt. I can't quite put my finger on it, something about the presentation I disliked.The story itself though interesting. Yeah, I didn't know I knew him. I never gave him any thought. He may as well be more famous than Michael Jackson. It always amazes me how mediocre looking dude with a good vocabulary can attract women and make them do virtually anything. Note: I am not jealous. So you have a product that is known worldwide, and the inventor a bit of an eccentric A*******, that's potentially a recipe for disaster.Absolutely worth a watch, one hell of story! The story of the guy you know by name and his products' fame. The story of how money can mess with your mind? Or the story of a highly intellectual with vices?? Thank god that the elections weren't McAfee VS Trump. It could have been.