Tread

Based on a real incident in 2004 in which a lunatic wronged by a cabal of business people in a small town in Colorado builds a home-made tank and starts driving over buildings and shooting at people. There are some big-name producers behind this doc, which sustains itself by including an actual audio recording/manifesto from the tank-building miscreant and re-enacts the attack with a mock-up of the tank presumably built for the film. Filmmakers structure the story to make the suicidal man a sympathetic, Rambo-like anti-hero. They’re lucky he didn’t kill anybody, or it would be a very different film. Deep down, it’s what everybody wants to do right? Build a tank and drive over your enemies? Glorious, glorious revenge can be so satisfying. But I bet some of the terrorized people in the town of Granby didn’t find it all so funny.