I went into this Netflix documentary with lowered expectations based on the reviews. Hoping that maybe it was dog-piling… I mean, how can you screw up an informative documentary that bad? Well, you can, as it turns out.

The flick is theoretically about eccentric software billionaire John McAfee and his run-ins, and runs from, the law. A couple of reporters meet up with him in Belize and follow him as he flees the country – and then flees multiple countries – all while being a rambling paranoid crazy narcissist who needs to be on camera while running for his life.

The flaw with the doc is its hazy focus on the wrong subject. No better example of this as in an early scene where one of the documentarians slips and falls down. The doc cuts to the person years later explaining that slipping and falling hurt. Guys… bet you didn’t know that a grown man falling down was painful. Well, now you do. Get your jaw up off the floor… you look silly.

Yeah, this documentary is more focused on the guys with the cameras than they guy they are following. A fictionalized account of a documentary crew following a lunatic might be fun, but as an actual documentary? No thanks.

Besides being a crazy paranoid narcissist, who is John McAfee? And why are their camera following him? The doc hand-wavingly reminds us he’s a tech billionaire… and that he’s on the run from the US government. Details? Explanations? Why is that? But, no, the doc only really cares about the footage the videographers got while he’s on the lamb (and the after-action interviews).

I guess the focus of the doc was never meant to be John McAfee himself… but how interesting are the travels of a film crew following a delusional nutbar as he flees all over the Caribbean? This film is like getting a Snickers bar and looking forward to the chocolate, nougat, and nuts… and winding up eating the wrapper.

Score: 64