benzene This could have been a great documentary, but it was completely ruined, presumably by the director. Almost any treatment of this material would have been an improvement. Let's just hear these guys debate. Camera shots of helicopter rotors isn't what we're watching this for.I don't need to hear rap "music," I want to hear Hitchens and Wilson! The debate has been diced into tiny snippets with huge long gaps of practically nothing between. If they only had 20 minutes of good material, then they should have made it a 20 minute movie, not 20 minutes of good stuff and 70 minutes of crap.I've seen Hitchens debate other people and demolish most of the arguments used by Wilson in this movie, yet every time Wilson put forward a lame argument, the movie cut away to some completely unrelated BS. I presume that the bias toward Wilson in this film reflects the personal bias of the director or the producer, but it is perhaps only apparent to someone who has seen Hitchens in other settings.It's not that Wilson wasn't an articulate and persuasive purveyor of his view; it's just that he offered few arguments that haven't been effectively demolished by Hitchens in other debates. If you want to see a debate where Hitchens doesn't come out on top, watch him debate Al Sharpton. Hitchens just comes across as a blow-hard in that one, which of course he is, though not "just" a blow-hard.The best part of the show was the "audience questions" which was relegated to a couple minutes at the very end. I wish there had been more of that as well. Some good emotion showed by the audience.Don't waste your time with this one.

machngunjoe I thoroughly enjoyed listening to both debaters, if only all arguments in politics for example could be so civilized. Ironically it was the film itself that prevented my entertainment and made it hard for my intellectual curiosity to be aroused.Major concept problems with the film.Shaky camera work, crazy zoom ins and zoom outs, deliberate focus adjustments, but I think the worst crime is I never really heard the argument. The film chopped the debate up so everything the both of them said was out of context, meaning you didn't know what was said before or after to set up the discussion.Rock music was also injected at times, which was cliché at best.Overall, I could obviously tell the film makers were trying to make what would be a debate on one topic, exciting. So they sold their artistic 'souls' if you will, to the devil, by putting in all these random film techniques, none of which met the real style of the film. They would have been better off sitting those two guys down at a table and just let them have at it. I was more entertained by watching youtube videos of Chris Hitchens and the other guy (sorry I forgot his name).

David I would have given this film a 9 for sure if it hadn't been for the terrible camera-work. Whoever did the editing had WAY too much fun jiggling the camera, putting in flashing effects, cutting in and out. I guess it was meant to be hip or something. At first I thought I had put the Bourne Supremacy on by mistake. I was even starting to get a little motion-sick. Add to the flashing images and close-ups on Wilson's nose or the left side of Hitchen's face, you also have completely mismatched background music accompanying nearly every word that was said. The visuals were, for me, a total defeat for what could have been the best Hitchens debate documentary to ever come out. I think Wilson is the best opponent Hitchens has ever faced. He's educated, determined and passionately attached to his Christian faith. Wilson is one who begins to approach Hitchens's education, analytical and debating skills and devotion to the cause. Why, guys, why oh why did you spoil it all with the poor camera-work?

Randy I'm a huge fan of any sort of religious or philosophical debate subject matter. I absolutely love contemplating the intricacies of this stuff.The subject matter is straightforward, and I enjoyed seeing both Hitchens and Wilson present all manner of arguments for their positions on all manner of tangential issues regarding Christianity. They stick mostly on morality which got a bit tiresome frankly, (I thought Wilson's repetitive god-based reasoning were fairly easy to absolve however.) It was interesting to hear them go 'round and 'round about this issue or that. I thoroughly enjoyed the debates.What I absolutely loathed was the cinematography style. The camera never stood still. It was zoomed into Hitchens' face, darting around as if the cameraman was trembling uncontrollably. This isn't a punk music video! But you wouldn't know it from the obnoxious heavy metal soundtrack either. Totally inappropriate to the subject matter, distracting, and frankly they should re-edit the entire film to remove as much of the extreme-closeups, shakiness, and death metal as possible.