I'm sure Powers Boothe did a tremendous job in an earlier retelling of this atrocity and perhaps portrayed Jones for a longer period than just the last three days of his life. Much has been made in earlier reviews of the portrayal of Jones by Rick Roberts but in my opinion I thought Mr Roberts did a great job of portraying Jones in his final three days when, after his leadership was being questioned and his arrogance worn down by drugs and an increasing paranoia, became dangerously and lethally unstable. ![]() Being in the UK I hadn't been aware of this horrendous series of events leading up to the mass killing of all those people and so many children. ![]() I was 18 when these events took place in Guyana. Stephan was well-informed, intelligent and it's too bad he didn't have a father who was the same way! Good documentary of the tragedy that happened 37 years ago! He really was close to his mom and I don't blame him for not missing his dad because Jim Jones made his followers do themselves in. I felt bad for Stephan Jones the bio son of Jim and Marcelline Jones. I felt compassion for Vern Gosney because he really thought he was doing the right thing for his small son and this lead to the boy's death. I felt bad for her father, Sherman Harris who was just connecting to his daughter before this tragedy. Sadly, it led to her death, her mother's and 2 younger half-siblings' death as well. ![]() Liane was a good girl with a wonderful heart who wanted to do the right thing by her mother and she thought joining the Peoples Temple was a great thing. Other than that, the reenactment of the events leading up to the poisoning was quite good! The girl who played the doomed Liane Harris was so good! She conveyed the emotions of a girl barely out of her teens who wanted to make a difference in the world. I thought this documentary movie about Jonestown was excellent! However, the guy who played Jim Jones did not have the same charisma, dangerous edge that Powers Boothe had. It is not at all like one of those cheaply made STVs that focuses on a particular killer like Dahmer or Gacy it's too well made for that. If it serves as a catharsis for the survivors, more power to it. If its message is to tell us to beware of cults, you have to figure it's preaching to the choir. They killed at least five and wounded several more. Things I hadn't known or forgotten: the children were killed first, members of the congregation who were unable or reluctant to drink the poison were injected with it, some members managed to escape into the woods, and Jones sent a death squad to kill the congressman, reporters and defectors at the air strip. Someone - the son, I think - points out this was not a mass suicide but murder plain and simple. One of the hardest things to watch is the actual mass murder itself. The only problem with this is, the guy playing Jim Jones is not terribly convincing, and only serves to remind us of how effective Powers Boothe was as the notorious cult leader in a network miniseries some years before. A small number of survivors, including Jones' son, are interviewed on screen, and segments based on their memories are reenacted using a large cast of amateur actors. Paradise was lost when the Peoples Temple "drank the Kool-Aid" and Jones put a bullet in his head.Ĭhilling documentary about Jonestown and its aftermath. Archival footage and in-depth personal interviews gives a glimpse into the inner workings of the tragic cult and its surreal demise. ![]() Roberts had the mannerisms, but fell short on.no pun intended.the spirit. Boothe actually seem to capture Jone's arrogance and charisma. But he falls way short of Powers Boothe's dead on portrayal years earlier. Rick Roberts does his best to play the role of Jones, the ego-maniacal pastor. California congressman Leo Ryan(Greg Ellwand)makes a fatal journey into the jungles of Guyana, where Jim Jones and his followers carved out their own piece of paradise.the community of Jonestown. Through government information, eyewitness and survivor accounts, the last week before the mass murder-suicide on Novemis recreated. This documentary is a re-enactment with the aid of actual footage depicting the final days of Jonestown, the Peoples Temple and Jim Jones.
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