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"An Inconvenient Truth" is one of the scariest films ever made. That said, it's not a slasher movie... it's a documentary.

The film takes the viewer through former Vice President Al Gore's slide show on the effects of global warming on Earth. The slide show is inter-spliced with different montages of events in Gore's life that led him to become so adamant about this issue. He also provides examples of his time at college, and a certain professor that introduced the concept of global warming to him, which led to his lifetime commitment to it. He says in the film that he's probably shown slide shows regarding global warming "at least a thousand times."

Gore shows glaciers, mountains, Antarctica and Greenland. He shows the audience what these places used to look like, what they look like now and how they will be if we don't stop releasing the amount of carbon that we produce into the atmosphere.

One of the strongest points that Gore makes in his slide show is the affect of global warming upon typhoons, hurricanes, and tornadoes. He uses Hurricane Katrina to relay the message that a warmer ocean creates a stronger and more powerful hurricane and if we do nothing, these storms will only worsen and create more havoc.

Gore and the director do a fantastic job of showing just how prevalent global warming is to the world. One of the funnier lines that Gore states in the movie is that, "Maybe there are other, bigger issues to worry about besides terrorism."

The only weak part of the film is a sense that some of it is "cheesy." During the different montages, the director put in (what felt like) a hundred shots of Gore working away at his slide show on his trendy Mac laptop. These scenes of Gore industriously working added nothing.

This film will have a powerful and lasting affect on anyone who takes just an hour and a half out of their day to watch it. It may not be an ideal date movie, but it's certainly one that everyone needs to see.