If you’re looking for a documentary that will really enrage, infuriate, and perhaps, inspire, then this is probably the one. Well, to be truthful, this film might also deplete any general sense of faith in humanity that you had before, or at least faith in the military.

I remember feeling a similar way after viewing Who Killed the Electric Car? It is just the realization that there are small groups of powerful people who would do terrible things at the expense of the general public.

The Tillman Story was well made. Clearly, it was spun in favor of the Tillman family, but I also think that there is no other way to spin it. It was unbelievable to me that the Tillman family did not receive some kind of closure after the immense amount of evidence they uncovered.

As a brief explanation, here is what the movie coves: Pat Tillman was an NFL star with a multi-million dollar contract. In the year following 9/11, he chose to enlist in the army with his brother and leave his football career. During his second combat tour on April 22, 2004, he was killed in battle. While the army presented the case that Tillman was gunned down by enemies while trying to save his fellow brothers, it was later revealed that he was not only killed by friendly fire, but that the army knew this to be the case the entire time. Even more confusing and appalling, he was killed by members of his squad after continuously making it known that he was “Pat Fucking Tillman.”

During the final scenes of the movie, we are allowed to see footage of the congressional hearing against some of the highest ranking generals in the United States. This is the part of the movie that really made me wonder what the hell kind of secret was being covered up. If you’ve ever seen the picture of state legislators playing solitaire during a debate, you probably wondered who the hell we were electing into office. Once you see the testimony in the Tillman hearing…I’m just not even sure what to say. It’s infuriating.

The Tillman Story is thought provoking and sad. It explores the complications of public grief, military propaganda and cover-ups, and the fog of war. While I hate to call it a mystery, because it certainly seems like the Tillman family has solved it, it is a mystery in the sense that something feels terribly wrong throughout.