Tony Robbins: I Am Not Your Guru (2016)

Awesome Movie

Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.

The acting in this movie is really good.

A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.

This documentary films a six day event in which Tony Robbins works with attendees to change their life. Presumably, everyone has some different area they want to work on. Several times throughout the film, we see computer screens or paper lists mapping out the day. What I would have been most interested to see is the steps of the process, perhaps following some attendees through each piece. I imagine they felt that that would be giving away his product for free. Instead, we see several "interventions" in which Tony sometimes seems to speak truth, and sometimes tells people to do some confusing things. I wanted to believe that this man understands how we work and can get to the core of all our issues, but this film didn't make me believe that. It didn't disprove him either, just left me less interested in what he has to say. I've enjoyed his podcast appearances much more than what I thought was going to be a look into the inner workings of an effective process.

I'll never know precisely how this documentary/movie/whatever it is, plays out. There was so much profanity within the first few minutes, I sort of lost my desire to watch the rest. A WHOLE lot of F word variations, some S##T variations.. just, too much. I thought he was classier than that so it it surprised me a bit, but over a short time it just got kind of trashy and embarrassing. His audience would cuss too, no doubt brought on by his own cussing. Pretty disappointing really. I expected better. One or two curse words might have been OK, but this was so overdone I exited out and just had to write about it. Also within the short time I watched, Tony managed to talk about masturbation, and got one of the audience members to tell us that she taught her own daughter to tell her estranged father to go F%%K himself. High class I tell ya. I won't ever be tuning in to another one.

I give it a 2 because it was entertaining at first. The suicidal guy lifted up, cool scene, entertaining. Tony saying the F word, shocking and funny. Learning that they paid $4,000 per ticket? Wow. The man can speak, he can make them cry, he can make you think positive but he can't possibly cure your issues. The woman made to break up on the phone with her boyfriend, lol funny and weird. talk about pressure. Hey it's those peoples money and they can spend it how they want but less than halfway through, it got old. Netflix brought me here. I don't think it was investigative enough or showed the bad side. Tony has been around forever though, he knows how to hustle that is for sure.

The Netflix Logo tricked me into watching this infomercial disguised as a documentary. From a movie making point of view it is flawless. Beautiful camera-work, perfect editing and intriguing soundtrack.As the director proved time and time again, he is a master of his art, e.g. the Metallica documentary. But this time he failed in separating his personal experience from his job as a documentary filmmaker and basically made a concert movie that serves as an advertisement for Mr. Robbins and his empire.The length of the documentary with almost 2 hours is also contributing to the fact that i fell like someone tried to brainwash me.