What a fantastic film! Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine is as good a piece of film making as any I have seen for several years. It is also a documentary that means, I guess, that few people will go to see this. Well, you should.

It’s an investigative piece that looks at the United State of America's love of guns – in all their forms. While it appears many Americans think it's a constitutional right to protect their family with a shoot first mentally, Moore contends that this obsession with the freedom to bear arms results in unnecessary deaths (accidental and intentional). Contrasted with Canada – similar gun laws and ownership but considerably fewer deaths – it seems Moore may have a point.

The statistics played out on the screen are not always given a context and some of his points rather laboured but Bowling For Columbine has some moments you'd think were fiction (the final K-Mart statement – I won’t spoil it) yet are horribly real.

And yes, the clip that's been doing the rounds of the film shows that has Moore getting a free gun when opening a bank account appears to be very real. Funny, it really does appear that these things really do "only happen in America".