A documentary worth watching if you have even the slightest bit of curiosity in Uwe Boll or his work as the movie covers more than just his controversial 2006 boxing match against film critics. We get an exploration of his career up that point as well as a brief glimpse into who he became afterwards. Finding out that Boll was a just a cinema-passionate dreamer that managed to turn his fantasy of filmmaking into a reality only to be torn apart by the same kind of outcasts he identified with makes the man rather sympathetic in a Tommy Wiseau sort of way. You are likely to find yourself rooting for Boll when the fights finally come. Especially given how obnoxious a couple of his opponents were. This sounds like it would make for a compelling underdog story that may even cause people to like Uwe Boll, but the fact of the matter is that the he's still hated to this day and for good reason. You see, the real tragedy of Boll's story isn't that he suffered personal attacks for making a bunch of really bad movies. It's that he ended up letting the hate get to him and became the very thing he sought to fight in the ring. That's what I really like about this documentary. It doesn't just stop after the match, but instead does what any really good biography should do and covers the more flawed side of it's subject as well. As a result this is almost the entire Uwe Boll story. The film also has a lot to say about the toxicity of internet culture. How it provides a means for people to try and make others as miserable as they are. Something that's only becoming more true with the times. The immense backlash Uwe Boll has received over the years proves to be a good window into this issue. Don't believe me? Then take a look at some of the user reviews for his movies on this site alone. See how many attack the man himself rather than the actual content of the film in question. It's something I myself have been guilty of. As for the flaws of the documentary, you can tell this was a pretty cheap production. Lots of shaky camera work and reused footage during the interviews. One could also argue that perhaps it's a bit one-sided. A lot of the director's opposition is shown to be of the more embarrassing variety. The kind of backwards, hateful nerds that unfortunately are too often the face of geek culture. Now the movie isn't wrong for showing this. These were the kinds of disgusting people at the forefront of the personal attacks Uwe Boll endured, and it's point was to show the worst of the worst, but it doesn't do a great job of showing that were other people out there during this time who were more level-headed and offering genuinely constructive critiques. Raging Boll proves to be a good way to learn about one of the all-time worst filmmakers while simultaneously offering a compelling message that's anti-hate. It doesn't gloss over his flaws in it's effort to be empathetic. We see his arrogance and his hypocrisy alongside the more strangely endearing aspects of his personality. I walked away feeling like I learned a lot not just about Boll, but also how I should write about movies I dislike in a way that's less insulting to the people involved. Also there's a shot of Uwe Boll walking out of a ladies restroom that I can't stop thinking about. Why was he in there? What was wrong with the men's room?