Morgan Spurlock, Jeremy Kay writes in the Guardian, "is no journalist; rather, he is a direct activist with a camera who tries to use his platform to engage audiences in an age where the blizzard of technology and information causes people to lose sight of one basic truth." For his first film, Super Size Me, Spurlock suffered irreversible liver damage in order to make his point about the dangers of subjecting himself to a diet of McDonald's products, so it figures that, for his new film — Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?, recently premiered at Sundance and due for release later this year — he wouldn't have any hesitations about trying to run down the face of Al Qaeda for an interview.
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