I don't know what we were supposed to learn by seeing clips of Gene Scott's show. I feel like the audience already intuitively knew that his show would be ridiculous. There was no need to spend half the documentary showing us. Where the movie gets good is with the interview portions with Gene Scott. We get some insight there, but only some. This may not be Herzog's fault, because Scott appears to clam up once Herzog's questions start to get a little too pointed.

Aside from some moments of sheer insanity this is slow and mostly disgusting.

Herzog interviews a nutso Californian televangelist. Scott's relentless ranting is enough to make him come across as crazy without Herzog needing to probe too deeply. Ultimately, the documentary is too long and nobody involved learns anything. Tedious.

Crazy tv personality shown to us by Herzog. Not much is done but still an interesting piece.

I don't like this documentary so much. Maybe 'cause it's lacking energy at times. Or perhaps because I don't like preachers in general.

Very interesting, but a little slow.

The juxtaposition of a seemingly bright, educated man and his relentless greed is interesting, but I'm also not too sure what Herzog is getting at, if anything.

As always, I love Herzog's choice of subject. This is not a documentary about televangelism as a public phenomenon. Instead he lets us sample the private personality of the televangelist, something very worthy of exposure. It's very interesting to get inside the head of a self-righteous con artist in denial, seeing just how much of Gene Scott's mask Herzog can manage to pry off for long enough to let us glimpse underneath.

There are moments here of enormous power.