Mad as Hell is a 2014 documentary film about the web series The Young Turks and its host, Cenk Uygur.
"[1] The film details how Cenk Uygur created the web series The Young Turks.
[6] Writing for RogerEbert.com, Godfrey Cheshire awarded it a score of three out of four stars, saying that Uygur's "pioneering efforts certainly remind us how controlled most 'news' in this country is, and how much alternatives to them are needed.
"[8] Slant Magazine awarded it two and a half out of four stars, and was critical of how the film focused primarily on Uygur rather than current media practices, saying "Yet instead of using Uygur as a means to further an investigation into current media practices, Napier is ultimately too enamored with the man and his convictions that the film hews more closely to being a conventional and one-sided biographical portrait.
"[9] We Got This Covered made a similar criticism to Slant Magazine, saying "Mad As Hell is a rare opportunity to use the life story of Cenk Uygur to say something about the modern media culture, but instead, it’s kind of about the awesomeness of Uygur, how he put together his Ocean’s 11 like team of media upstarts and rocked the so-called squares in their ivory tower, despite the fact that the man leading the revolution longed to have a corner office in one of those very same towers."