Info-241-562323 I found this to be an interesting move/documentary into the life and work of James Randi - I had no idea before this that he had quite an accomplished past as a performer himself.Having watched several presentations in which he debunks countless (fake) psychic/mystic charlatans; I was interested to see a little deeper into his life.Yes, a considerable portion of the movie is given to his personal relationship, but it's also revealed where his passion for exposing 'frauds' comes from. Yes... it's a little wishy/washy here and there - but so is the world of deception.Knowing and seeing how far people are willing to go for 'cures' and a better quality of life has always intrigued me; and I feel it's only right that the people who can 'claim' to grant and provide such wishes are exposed. You can only admire that the man claiming such things to be 'fake', seems to back up his claims by explaining how they're done to the people who matter. Whilst not all of this was shown here, he obviously ruffled enough feathers to hopefully allow people to see what really may be going on behind the scenes.All-in-all... a good watch.8/10

Ersbel Oraph I am sure James Randi is a wonderful person. Certainly he is a personality who influenced many, many whom are not in this documentary. I liked the old footage with a young Randi. But this is not his story. This is a bunch of facts piled up in a rather chronological order. I was very curious to meet his husband. Yet this is not a reason to like this badly done documentary. And the talking heads are mostly individuals even less smarter than the debunked charlatans.Contact me with Questions, Comments or Suggestions ryitfork @ bitmail.ch

Alan J. Jacobs I expected this to be about Randi's debunking of psychics and religious healers, but it was also about his much younger boyfriend (now husband), and his struggles to stay in the USA, despite having stolen someone else's identity. Very touching. How did I miss Randi's coming out (at age 81!)? I was a bit disappointed that it did not go into his debunking of religion in general, and it revealed none of the magic tricks--even as Randi is exposing someone like Uri Geller as merely a magician, not a psychic. Nonetheless, the documentary was riveting. An Honest Liar. The Amazing Randi (James Randi was also a great conversationalist--he had an all-night radio show on WOR-New York when I was a teen, competing with Long John Nebel and Brad Crandall.)

Hank Yank This is a story on the tension between reality and illusion.Randi early in life: " I'm a trickster, I'm a cheat, I'm a charlatan, that's what I do for a living. Everything I've done here was by trickery."Randi, the great illusionist and escape artist, becomes a fighter for truth later in life. Living a mission to uncover illusionists who are saying they are in contact with the gods like, Uri Geller and Popov, who were claiming psychic powers.Randi proves they are just illusionists, debunking their self-claimed divine powers. Randi believes this is extremely important as people place far to much trust in these fraudulent con-men.I find it interesting to see the human will to believe, people ignoring the proof offered by Randi, wanting to believe in divine powers on the earth thereby feeding the mouth and pleasures of the con men in the world.I wonder is the influence of con men a bad thing?A person in the documentary said it quite well, the energy in the room with Popov was amazing. With his self claimed godly connection he created a belief, a huge energy filling the room, giving people faith, a rush. An energy people lack in normal life. The conclusion is that Randi's skeptic words are an inconvenient truth. Because what is an earth without divine powers? This energy in room with Popov is real. If Randi is right, are we just Muppet's running around being born, feeding ourselves and dying?Randi is a front-man of the skeptics, believing, that we will have a better world without this "god on earth" illusion.With this believe and his well placed actions against the frauds he became a god in itself for the skeptics.It is extremely beautiful to see Randi was living a large part of his life with a huge lie and illusions as well. Thereby proving his no god as well. No god for the skeptics. Just a normal man; an honest man, a liar, all in one. There is divinity in that.