The Devil at Your Heels

Opens as Ken "The Mad Canadian" Carter preps for the world record jump with a car(ter). He fails & sails into the final few with a loud, pointless crunch of metal and an inaudible crunch of bone. Pointlessness lingers, so too Carter's charm & acuity: he'd assessed the decrepit car with disarming frankness, shrugged off certain carnage in a particularly Canadian fashion. In the stunt of stunts he fails and fails to fail better. Unless you count the high entertainment. Which hurts a little.

Ultimately depressing.

An excellent documentary that is accessible, entertaining, insightful, and profound. That's a hard list to accomplish at once, but Devil at Your Heels achieves all of those attributes through the entire film.

You know you've made it when Evil Kenevil thinks you are crazy. This seemingly no frills documentary is brimming with passion and determination from a man that calls himself The Mad Canadian. And boy is he Canadian.