Collapse Review

Both a study of a man on a mission and a warning about the global ramifications of an oil crisis, this talking-head documentary allows hard-hitting fact and more specious supposition to compete for the audience’s credulity. A former LAPD officer who has spent three decades disbelieving headline news stories, Michael Ruppert predicted the credit crunch and is now convinced a greater catastrophe is inevitable unless humanity changes its mindset. He makes his case with a mix of cogency, passion and gallows humour, and not even the odd lapse into hyperbole can discredit his plausibly apocalyptic vision. Relieving the relentless close-ups with apposite archive footage, this makes for tough, but necessary viewing.