Watch: Gringo: The Dangerous Life of John McAfee 2016 123movies, Full Movie Online – Mysteries abound in the life of John McAfee. He made millions creating antivirus software, then reinvented himself as a yogi, a proponent of herbal medicine, and a serial entrepreneur. He was known for his charm and generosity. Then his life took another turn. He moved from the US to Belize and built a heavily armed compound in the jungle, like a modern day Heart of Darkness. McAfee never shied away from media attention and boasted of his libertine lifestyle, maintaining a harem of young women. In 2012 his neighbour in Belize, an American named Gregory Faull, was found murdered by a gunshot. Sought for questioning by local authorities, McAfee fled to Guatemala, then returned to the US where he pursued the Libertarian Party nomination for President in 2016. Over the years, journalists have told pieces of McAfee’s story (including the infamous Vice report accidentally revealing his secret location). Here the Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Nanette Burstein delivers a deep investigation that sheds new light on the shadows around the 70-year-old mogul. McAfee refuses her requests for an interview, but continues a strange cat-and-mouse email correspondence for months. In Belize, Burstein conducts revelatory new interviews with McAfee’s former associates, uncovering his bizarre behaviour with women, local gangsters, and guns. She probes into the investigation of the unsolved murder of Faull, and learns of other allegations against McAfee for crimes that were never prosecuted. Paranoia runs high on all sides of this story, but Burstein never backs down in pursuing answers..
Plot: The strange story of John McAfee, who went from millionaire software mogul to yogi, Kurtz-like jungle recluse to potential murderer, and most recently a prospective presidential candidate for the American Libertarian Party.
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A compelling documentary
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.
Pathetic Hatchet Job
This is a despicably biased piece of cinematic garbage, haphazardly directed by an artless propagandist. Not one moment of this film even portends to be the slightest bit objective or open-minded. It’s kind of sad, because somewhere in this series of events it seems that there could be a cogent and compelling narrative, but in the hands of this ham-fisted, half-wit director, all is lost. Reading the email exchange between the director and McAfee (despite being edited by the director) is something akin to watching a chimp play chess against Garry Kasparov. It makes me wonder just how inept she would seem if the unedited exchanges had been included instead. All in all, don’t waste your time with this God awful, raging dumpster fire of a “documentary.”
Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 37 min (97 min)
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Genre Documentary, Crime
Director Nanette Burstein
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Actors Allison Adonizio, Nanette Burstein, Mark Coker
Country United States
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