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This Devastating Documentary Shows There’s No ‘Escape from Extinction’
Escape from Extinction
Rating: 9/10
Director: Matthew R. Brady
Writers: Alex Vincent Blumberg and Peter Meadows
Style: Documentary
Time: 1 hour and 29 minutes
Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-TOSKUZwhU
Review by Mike Szymanski
Some of my earliest animal activism memories include saving money to send to save Keiko the Killer Whale who was the subject of the movie “Free Willy.” The plan was to release the confined creature into the wild, where he would be free again, away from that nasty corporate water zoo that was putting him on display and making him do tricks.
Well, it turns out that this documentary shows how those quarters I was collecting were going toward Keiko’s demise. He wasn’t ready to be sent off into the wild, and those activists who were protesting to “Free Willy” were misguided in their activism and ended up killing Keiko way before his time.
