Bunker

2021

Action / Documentary

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IMDb Rating 5.2/10 10 41 41

Plot summary

Bunker investigates the lonely lives of American men who have decided to live in decommissioned military bunkers and nuclear missile silos, and follows the process of building and selling these structures to the wealthy and not-so-wealthy alike.

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Jenny Perlin Photo
Jenny Perlin

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1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by nachocheeselibertad 1 / 10

Someone tell Jenny Perlin that "dead slow" isn't a pace

The most boring documentary I've ever seen, loaded with bland, empty shots that last three times longer than necessary and lack context or information, while no investigating was done, no information is provided at any time, there's no narrative, and there isn't even evidence these men are lonely per the synopsis...This is more like random clips from trips to meet interesting people that completely wasted the opportunity to learn about them and how they live.Presumably the "director" wanted the content to speak for itself except the end result is a movie that seems like it wasn't directed at all.
Reviewed by Novacain2006 1 / 10

A Great Example in how NOT to make a Documentary

There are standard guidelines when making a documentary for public consumption and this boring attempt misses every single one of them. Less an actual documentary and more just a series of lazily edited together clips that barely create a narrative this waste of 90 minutes can't even be called a film "experience" but rather an ingratiating, sleep inducing, time wasting series of clips that aren't half as interesting as watching paint dry. Long (and I mean LONG) periods of time go by with absolutely no narration, no information, explanation nor reason for being. They just expect you the viewer to know what's happening even though it becomes painfully obvious that the MAGA survivalists featured have no clue whatsoever themselves. When people do talk it's an incoherent mashup of drawls with very little intellect pushing survivalist, paranoid delusional views that couldn't stay afloat in a teaspoon. A great example of "Just because you have a camera that doesn't mean you can make an actual movie." Watch this if you're bored, can't fall asleep or are so lost that every time it snows you run in circles screaming the sky is falling. Whew.....
Reviewed by jonathancanucklevine 3 / 10

A truly lazy effort and wasted opportunity.

The byline is "Bunker investigates the lonely lives of American men who have decided to live in decommissioned military bunkers and nuclear missile silos, and follows the process of building and selling these structures to the wealthy and not-so-wealthy alike." In fact, there's no investigation, and no following of any process(es). This is one of those documentaries in which the filmmaker has chosen not to narrate or provide any background whatsoever on her subjects, presuming to let them speak for themselves. So we don't learn anything of their opportunities, investment, or effort, and it's highly presumptuous for these men's lives to be described as "lonely", when there's no such evidence presented e.g. Their back stories. And where it might be easy to dismiss these guys as paranoid survivalists or luxury condo-hawking opportunist developers, living underground (or "earth-sheltered") is in fact a very reasonable and particularly energy-efficient thing to do - especially if you can get it for a small fraction of the tens (or hundreds) of millions of dollars the government originally put into them. So I'll be waiting for the director's cut with a half hour of *meaningful* interviews with the subjects so we can learn what they're really about.
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