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A well made, low budget documentary produced and presented by George Galloway, former Labour MP and scourge of Tony Blair's New Labour.

The film obviously focuses on Blair's role in the invasion of Iraq in 2003 and its aftermath, followed by his role as a Middle East 'peace envoy'. Blair's actions in supporting George Bush's drive for war in Iraq are well known and documented already and so most of the footage or analysis offers nothing new.

What is more interesting is the details of Blair's other exploits both during and after his time as British prime minister. These include his relationships with banks such as JP Morgan who employed Blair as an adviser or big business, such as Rupert Murdoch's media empire who Blair cosied up to.

The documentary's strongest point is in detailing the vast amounts of money Tony Blair has made since leaving office through various speaking engagements and advisory roles.

Tony Blair is a man who has made vast wealth from speaking to and advising all sorts from big businesses to violent dictators. All the while he benefits from taxpayers money paying for his security detail to protect not just him but also his many properties.

Various talking heads including politicians, journalists, diplomats and political activists are on hand to provide analysis including strong contributions from former minister Clare Short and writer Will Self.

The film is let down somewhat by George Galloway's ego which sees him feature prominently throughout the film. And at times he gets carried away by his sense of his own importance.

But if you can tolerate Galloway, it is an otherwise very strong documentary on Tony Blair, a figure who will live long in history as a pariah and war criminal.

This is a documentary revealing factual information about Blair's political and personal decisions and their impact on millions around the world.

It is very well researched documentary and a MUST SEE not only for political analysts but also for any ordinary person in the world.

The film shows how Blair manipulated the British Labor party and the Parliament to push through the decision to support US invasion of Iraq and how he supported the selling of the WMD idea to the world.

It really is an eye opener about deceit and lies people are being told by those who are in power to make a fortune for themselves.

Thought it'd be good to give another view on this as I suspect the only other reviewer of this title on this page at the moment hasn't actually seen it, and just has an axe to grind.

I'm no fan of Galloway but he's made a decent film here. It certainly isn't guilty of having 'no structure', and I'd say Galloway is better at this sort of thing than the disingenuous and dishonest Michael Moore.

Galloway eviscerates Blair, pretty much every aspect of his premiership (he believes his only two successes were the minimum wage and the Northern Ireland peace process); such complete takedowns of one politician are quite rare. While there is a great deal of focus on Blair's engagement in the Middle East (his wars, followed by his risible role as a 'peace envoy'), there's also much on the astonishing amounts of money Blair has made. He apparently has around 30 UK properties alone and could be worth £100 million. His other misdemeanours, like the Formula One sponsorship scandal, don't go un-noted.

Seeing Blair in full flow takes people like me right back; the mannerisms, the verb-less sentences, the doe eyes, the halting delivery, the cheesy grin... what a chap!

While I personally disagree with some of Galloway's conclusions - that, for instance, the terrorist attacks we now see in Europe are entirely due to Bush and Blair, or that he 'destroyed' the Labour Party (he won them three elections!) - he's made an entertaining documentary that is not without historical value. Made with professionalism, wittily edited and with plenty of historical footage and an impressive array of talking heads, this a good watch for anyone interested in British politics.

The legacy of Tony Blair is now laid bare for the whole world to see in this excellent documentary. It's debatable whether Tony Blair was a decent person when he became Prime Minister of Britain, but what's for sure is that power went to his head and in the end he was totally out of control and he did what the hell he liked. And hell is what he created in Iraq.

This documentary brings together all the damning evidence against Blair which demonstrates, without a doubt, he is morally bankrupt as a human being. His behaviour since invading Iraq has been absolute diabolical. He basically jets around the world and say or does anything (including praising and "advising" a brutal dictatorship like Kazakhstan's) for personal financial gain.

Some of us knew what he was. Now everyone can see. I think the worst calumny in his whole dodgy career was as a Peace Envoy in the Middle-East. Pity the poor, bloody, occupied Palestinians.

As somebody once said, it's not the despair that's so hard to take, it's the hope. And, in this respect, Blair does indeed let everybody down. His legacy, if that's what you call it, is still with us today. You can see it in the Parliamentary Labour Party: going to the high court to appeal against allowing Labour Party members a party leadership vote. And using party members' funds for the privilege.

The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

Everybody in the nation knows that this man is and was corrupt and deserves to be behind bars... the scary thing is that Chilcot or not, absolutely nothing will happen or him... ever! A great documentary that does Galloway great credit as the man whoa always said and is still saying what people seem to be too complacent to hear. Blair has helped to turn the world into a minefield, has destroyed his own party, has destroyed socialism and has ensured that his people are fast approaching a state of penury... he sowed the seeds and prepared the ground for all of Cameron's greed fest... he is a murderer, a thief and a liar... and for this he is still paid in millions by fellow criminals. welcome to the 21st century!

For someone who was taken in by a lot of what Tony Blair said while he was prime minister this is a sobering film. Clearly, any documentary hosted and produced by George Galloway is going to be biased, but the use of a range of right wing politicians, journalists, business and establishment figures as talking heads is a smart move that helps give balance and credibility to the story. The odious Ken Livingstone is only used once.

The credible case against Tony Blair is that the premise for the Iraq war was not there (as if we did not already know that), that he was deeply compromised with the deals struck with Rupert Murdoch, and that his post-political career as a business fixer and adviser to despots has stretched the bounds of avarice and conflicts of interest.

Ultimately, this is an important film whose strengths and weaknesses are both to do with George Galloway. Galloway has the mischievousness and ambition to make the film happen, but his own creepy relationship with Saddam Hussein and his sons, who attempted genocide of the Kurds in Iraq, makes him an unpalatable prosecutor of Tony Blair.

This is not an impartial or balanced documentary. But is anybody surprised ? After all, it is led by George Galloway a man who was thrown out from the Labour party by Tony Blair- A personal enemy perhaps as well as political. Once you accept this inherent bias the true value of the documentary comes through. This is not a simple tarring and feathering of a politician, but an analysis into Tony Blair's corruption and criminality and an insight into the economic and political systems which fosters and supports such behavior then and still today.

The warnings and lessons highlighted by this documentary serve as a reminder of the unsolved problems of today and the future.

This is a shocking story of a corrupted prime minister who sold his soul for money. Tony Blair is a war criminal who financially benefited from the Iraq war. This documentary shows him as he is - charming and persuasive but in the same time scruples, greedy, lying politician who can look into his innocent victims eyes and feel no empathy. The political system is so corrupted that not only he is not in prison but enjoying the fortune he made out of allowing to kill millions of innocent victims. Be aware that the documentary shows some brutal images of child victims. Will never look at Tony Blair the same way again. I wonder how can this man look in the mirror every morning.

George Galloway has always been painted as a dogmatic whack job by the press, but as narrator of this film it's hard to see him as anything but calm and rational. Okay, not always calm. And with a bit of a sense of humour and a great accent.

Tony Blair comes across as a money grubbing prostitute (sorry if this gives true prostitutes a bad name) who was always in it for money. And this made him a corrupt war criminal. But very rich. And, for a time, wanted on the speaking circuit by all the world's dictators.

One salacious detail is the possibility that Blair slept with the young wife of a very important old man (I won't spoil your enjoyment by revealing the names). This may pale in comparison with his support of wars that killed millions, but it illustrated that Blair never accepted that he was just a puppet. Puppet's don't sleep with the puppet master's wife. He didn't just want to be Bush's poodle. Poodle for pay, indeed.

This film documented that one man can control a government, by himself, solely with the help of unelected acolytes, in a supposed democracy. If there's one criticism of this film, it is that it didn't really explain how this magic trick is possible. How can a man so often go against not only the will of his country's citizens (everyone knows they don't count for much) but even his own cabinet? Maybe that's an entirely different film.

The Killing$ of Tony Blair. A documentary film about the legacy of Blair and how he's personally profited million$ from his own greed and corruption. As might be expected by a film narrated by George Galloway, it is unashamedly one sided, but benefits from the testaments of numerous political commentators, including Clare Short, Will Self, Naom Chomsky and many others. It serves as a timely reminder of the days when the Labour Party lost its core values and how the apparent mess the current party finds itself, as portrayed by the rich and powerful media, is a mere sideshow to protect the status quo of greed, power, inequality and the politics of fear. Corbyn would approve. 8 out of ten.

Blair represents the most insidious manipulating and self-serving types to ever take office in a 'democracy'. His cover of christian 'faith' is particularly vile, given those of good faith. See the demon for what he is and do not let him over the threshold.

STAR RATING: ***** Saturday Night **** Friday Night *** Friday Morning ** Sunday Night * Monday Morning

When Tony Blair arrived in 10 Downing Street as leader of the Labour party in May of 1997, he was set to transform the party in a manner no one could have predicted. After over fifteen years of tough Tory rule, he had a vision for 'New Labour', which would take it off course from its firm socialist roots. George Galloway, who was sacked from Labour after revolting against Blair's decision to invade Iraq, has made this documentary, charting Blair's nefarious antics after assuming office, from cosying up to Rupert Murdoch for favourable media coverage, to getting a tobacco advertising ban overturned from Formula One after a generous grant from Bernie Ecclestone, a dodgy deal with some arms contractors, through to the decision to invade Iraq, and his post prime ministerial role, making lots of money as a speaker and, more unfathomably, as a peace envoy to the Middle East (which he invaded.)

Galloway has raised a high profile for himself as a firebrand politician who firmly sticks by his beliefs. He has had a monumental axe to grind with Tony Blair that has lasted over the years, so much so that we now have to try and swallow him as a filmmaker. Clearly a project of passion from Galloway, this aims to sully Blairs already tarnished reputation even further, and as such it's unsurprisingly somewhat one sided. Well, maybe not. To be fair, in what must be his first foray into the movie business, Galloway has demonstrated an impartiality a leftist activist like Michael Moore hasn't managed in years of work by mentioning what was achieved by Blair's Labour government, in the shape of the minimum wage, investment in hospitals etc., before swiftly tearing him back down again.

Blair has generated a wind of hostility from both left and right, something it's hard to say about any other political figure of recent times, and almost all of this stems from the decision to invade Iraq, for which Galloway saves his most savage criticism, toppling a tyrannical but steady government, and destabilising a region and creating a vacuum from which the terror group ISIS, who are our biggest threat at home and abroad today, emerged. In his analysis of Blair as a person, Galloway presents a picture of a calculating, determined individual who brought the Labour party back from the dead, but as a reprogrammed vessel, operating in a nearly indistinguishable manner from their Tory predecessors, where money made everything roll and the aspiration was individual, rather than collective, advancement.

It has an agenda and is a little one sided, but Galloway has still crafted an engaging, absorbing film that keeps you wrapped up, and finishes with a haunting, soul scathing song over the end credits. ****

An enlightening show for anyone who wants to know why the world is how it is today

Galloway yet again attaches himself to a conflict to fill his pockets with gold. He has jumped on the Iraq war to make a nicer earner for himself. Presenting this film as a force for good when the reality is, it's all to cream as much as he can off the back of millions of people's misery.

The film was mostly a diatribe from George. Terrible film, no structure whatsoever. A poor mans Michael Moore, and Moore isn't that good anyway.

I would've have given it a 2/10 if it wasn't for the awful droning Scotch accent I was victim to.

This documentary was necessary, and by was, I mean Galloway has missed the boat by several months. Had this been released pre-Chilcott, it could have changed everything but instead the result of the enquiry came and went and was ultimately a damp squib, as is now this doc which is a great shame.

George was on the ball with this for several years but all it is now is a massive wasted opportunity that changes nothing. As others have pointed out, George may turn a profit from this but nobody else stands to gain or lose anything and in a way, doing a huge disservice to the people of Iraq.

This diatribe is a barrage of hate spewed crap designed to make money by a guy who definitely has a personal axe to grind. This wouldn't be sooo horrendously bad if it wasn't for the glaring fact that he criticizes Blair for making money "off the backs of the Iraqi people" while doing precisely the very same thing!! The old "do as i say not as i do" thing AGAIN!! Low budget and more of the same ole same ole depressing progressive mania. Where the hell was this so called "documentary" back in 93? or even 03? Armchair quarterbacks are a dime a dozen and we all know that hindsight is 20/20. I think his "supposed" horrific waterboarding has left his brain soggy still. I gave this 1 star only because my wasted time should be worth something.Too little too late, but at least there are suckers out there he can scam a buck off of

...another one-sided political hatchet job. The problem is that the people condemning him as a monster are the same ones that believe in Marx, Lenin, Stalin and Mao...who collectively killed somewhere in the neighborhood (The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, 1997) of 100 million people.

Although I agree with almost everything this documentary says about Tony Blair, I cannot rate it because I dislike George Galloway even more. He will use every opportunity to push his alt-left propaganda.

Quite unintentionally, the documentary tells a separate story about Britain. What can one say about a country that has elected Tony Blair a PM 3 times and George Galloway an MP even more times?