To be honest this is one of those movies that is really hard to review. If there wasn't documented proof that this really happened, I would call the whole thing bullsh*t. Released in 2012, the film tells how in 1994 a 13 year old boy from San Antonio named Nicholas Barclay went missing. Three years later his family gets a call from some police in Spain that they hound him. He is then flown back to his family and resumes his former life. But something is off, from the way he talked to the way he looked. People were suspicious, was this even Nicholas. It is learned that this imposter is a French nationalist named Frederic Bourdin, and is wanted by Interpol for impersonating hindreds of people. Frederic is a sociopath who grew up in an abusive home where he was unwanted, and found an escape from his life by pretending to be others. One day he placed a fake phone call to the police claiming to be a couple on vacation who found a kid, locked himself in a phone booth and waited for the police to come, claimed to be Nicholas after he gathered some information about missing persons at random, and then proceeded to fool the police and the family about who he was for weeks. This movie would best be classified as a psychological thriller, it's like something out of a nightmare. How someone could do this to the family of a missing person and give them hope that they found them only to have it taken away from them is a sick individual. They actually got Frederic involved in the movie and when you hear him talk, he just doesn't sound right. He doesn't talk like a stable person, he should be locked away in and insane asylum. Documentaries are my favorite type of movies, and this is one of the best I've ever seen. Similar to "Man on Wire" in how it was shot, and creepier than almost any movie I've ever seen. An astonishing film that isn't just the best documentary film of the year, it's one of the best movies of the year in general. 5/5
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