Seeker focused

Self-imposed exile poses as filmmaker’s “search” for Osama bin Laden | Meghan Keane

Usually, when a first-time father leaves his pregnant wife for seven months, it's called abandonment. But when Morgan Spurlock does it, it's called research.

Spurlock, best known for abusing his body in the 2004 hit documentary Supersize Me, once again attempts to put himself at risk in his second feature debut, Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden?

But whereas Spurlock's McDonald's diet served as a nutritional lesson and seemed like a real threat to his physical health, the risks in Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? have less to offer. Spurlock's new film makes the mistakes of many sequels—it's bigger, faster, and less interesting.

If Spurlock has learned anything from big-budget action movies, "it's that complicated world problems are best solved by one lonely guy." Thus he uses a videogame premise to justify his one-man mission around the world in search of the world's most wanted figure.