This film was great. I was sceptical at the start as an evening in watching a political documentary is not precisely the Marvel Universe, is it? But, yes, this fed my soul and my interest in cinema. John Walsh is a filmmaker who goes undercover to see what elections in the UK are all about. It is no surprise that he finds things are rotten, but this story he uncovers is fantastic. Not even a drama could pull this off. It would be too unbelievable. He is looking for the ancient and dodgy local member of parliament, Sir Stuart Bell. To say he has been a bad boy is like saying Bernie Madoff is not great with money. I can't say more without blowing the story. Leave a rocking five-star review as we need more films like this and brave voices like John Walsh. It mixes animation to explanation but is never patronising. Walsh is an experienced filmmaker and it shows.

So Mr Walsh has set his own company up and the trials and tribulations of living life without a regular pay cheque has driven him into the arms of David Cameron and his off-shore tax-sheltered cronies.

The drama escalates as, oh gosh, John Walsh discovers there's a Labour candidate not doing his job. Well tell us something else that's new John. You could just as easily have found a Tory who is neglecting the most needy in their constituency. This is Politics in the UK in 2011. MPs are a shabby lot - we knew this without needing you to tell us.

This is not as its own publicity suggests 'thought provoking', 'comedic',or 'explosive'. It is genuinely tedious, self important, and - if this is 'the documentary of the year' - depressing in its shallowness.

At a time when we do need insightful political documentaries this is a shocking waste of time and resources.

With a running time of ninety minutes it is an hour and a half too long for my liking.

My favorite churchill quote, "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."

My congressional district could have been the scene of this doc and nothing much would have had to change. In fact, just change the names and run the movie again and nobody would notice. The party machine has been running my district for decades and now I don't think the other party, or any other party seriously tries to challenge the incumbent who moved into this district when she lost another district near by, and the previous incumbent left after 23 years in office. The only difference I can think of is that she never appears for debates or on election night, at least not at her offices (elections are every two years). We used to have a very prominent senator who did the same thing. He was never, never around except during an election period and then he was in the news daily claiming responsibility for all sorts of projects. I recall one was a huge deal with the chinese to build a high speed rail which still hasn't begun construction six years later.