HorrorFan78 What was billed as a chilling portrait into a lethal drug instead shows us a novice filmmaker who is addicted to cross dissolves. This movie is poorly conceived, poorly shot, and edited like a first year student project. The subject matter deserves much, much better. Pacing is dreadfully slow, editing is alternately clunky and sometimes nonexistent to the point that it feels like the movie forgets anyone is trying to watch it. Long, unedited interview clips try your patience as shot after shot just dissolve into the next. No artistry. No sense of storytelling. Some absolutely ridiculous ECU framing on interview subjects. Rookie mistakes, like poorly placed microphones picking up shirt noise and staging interviews next to what sound like busy highways. No connective logic between segments. The filmmaker also unnecessarily inserts himself into the project on numerous occasions, which only serves to provide the viewer with a face to blame.I'm an avid documentary watcher and believe that the meth epidemic in this country needs to be addressed. This is well intentioned but poorly executed, and I'm not sorry to say that I turned it off after 45 minutes.

Sandy Loam The first thing that stood out was the credit "A Justin Hunt Project". ... Oh really, now. Well maybe that other commenter was correct, and this -is- a school "project". A really bad one. Basically it's yet another misinformed drug documentary that doesn't really say anything new. Meth is bad. No, really?Lots of typos, and bad information, and restating the same thing over and over and over again: -The before and after pictures. -The shocking testimony of the addicts and the LEOs. -The awful chemicals used in production.The latter always kind of amuses me. Chemistry isn't pretty. The components used for production aren't consumed, ffs! Chemistry is reaction and extraction. It's not like baking a cake Do people really think that Prilosec is made with flour and brown sugar?

coocoo forcocoapuffs I am not a big fan of traditional documentaries; they need something unique besides content to keep my interest. American Meth has little of that in it's rambling production from users to law enforcement officials to politicians to an intimate inside look at an American Meth family. But that that said, the locations are not what u expect - small town working class America where one would expect a rosy Palin story instead of one of ex-Christians hooked and trying to raise kids. The inside story of the trailer park family is touching, and seems real and telling of a society crumbling, without saying it's crumbling. But as mentioned in another review, the trailer park sequence is just too long...you forget the rest of the drama while stuck in the inside drama of trailer trash.

iiigoiii As a documentary, this has to be one of the poorer ones I've seen recently. The problem of meth is fascinating, and the ubiquity of it means there couldn't be any end to the interesting individuals, interviews, or footage that could be found on the subject...but this docco seems to have found very little.It's disorganized, inconsistent, poorly shot and poorly edited. The narration switches seemingly at random between Val Kilmer and printed screens (complete with typos). The background of the meth problem from treatment and law enforcement perspectives is jumbled and incomplete.(An entire section of the movie is devoted to listening to a couple on meth argue while their children run around their trailer - but the lack of editing means the reason for being there is quickly lost and we're left wondering why we set foot in their trailer park in the first place.)In the end there's no deeper understanding of the problem of meth, and you're left feeling like you've just watched a final project from Film 101.