Synopsis
The film examines the question, "If Obama wins a second term, where will we be in 2016?" Across the globe and in America, people in 2008 hungered for a leader who would unite and lift us from economic turmoil and war. True to Americas ideals, they invested their hope in a new kind of president, Barack Obama. What they didn't know is that Obama is a man with a past, and in powerful ways that past defines him--who he is, how he thinks, and where he intends to take America and the world.
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Cast
- Dinesh D'SouzaSelf
- Barack ObamaSelf (archive footage)
- Joe BidenSelf (archive footage)
- Cait BraselYoung Democrate
- Gene Burris Jr.Stanford University College Student
- Lisa FoxProfessor / Administrator
- Zackary Steven GrahamDartmouth College Student
- Shelby SteeleSelf
Recommendations
- 70
Variety
While it's highly unlikely that anyone predisposed to championing Obama would be won over by the sound and fury here, there's no gainsaying the value of "2016" as a sort of Cliffs Notes precis of the conservative case against the re-election of our current U.S. president. - 60
Arizona Republic
He (D'Souza) reaffirms many of the complaints against Obama, and when he sticks to the facts is much more persuasive. - 50
Philadelphia Inquirer
Obama, it is implied, is deliberately making America more vulnerable to attack from Muslim extremists. No mention is made of the fact that it was under Obama's watch that Osama bin Laden was killed. - 40
The New York Times
Mr. D'Souza stumbles when interviewing George Obama, the president's half-brother, an activist who voluntarily lives amid squalor in Nairobi, Kenya. "Obama has not done anything to help you," Mr. D'Souza says. "He's taking care of me; I'm part of the world," George Obama replies. - 37
Washington Post
D'Souza makes it all sound almost plausible, but only if you're predisposed to believe that Obama hates America. It's bashing, all right, but with a velvet-gloved fist. - 30
The Hollywood Reporter
No one doubts that the country faces major challenges in the next four years, but there is one safe bet: The future is unlikely to be affected by this simplistic documentary. - 30
Boxoffice Magazine
Even if 2016 is preaching to the choir, its fanbase is eager to tithe - it's spent this week as Fandango's #1 ticket seller. - 30
Time
Many of D’Souza’s charges in his movie are either piffling (Obama returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the British Embassy), wrong (the U.S. is drilling for at least as much oil now as in the George W. Bush) or murky.
