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MOVIE: Fahrenheit 11/9

STARRING: Michael Moore, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton.

RATING: M

DIRECTOR: Michael Moore

REVIEWER: Vicky Roach

MICHAEL Moore might have been beating the same drum for the best part of 30 years, but the rumpled rabblerouser’s insistent rhythm is hard to resist.

And Moore’s authority in this scathing critique of modern American democracy is enhanced by his early, lone voice prediction that Trump would win the 2016 election while politicians and commentators were scoffing at the very notion.

As one would expect from a longtime lefty activist, Moore has plenty to say about the US President’s first 12 months in office.

But while Fahrenheit 11/9 draws incendiary — and persuasive — parallels between the Trump administration and Fascist Nazi Germany, it doesn’t let the Clintons, Barack Obama, the political establishment, or the mainstream media off the hook.

Fahrenheit 11/9 spends a considerable amount of time in Flint, Michigan, Moore’s hometown and the site of his first documentary Roger & Me.

If Moore gives anyone a "get out of jail free" card, it’s America’s disenfranchised couch potatoes — and presumably that’s because this documentary is intent on mobilising them.

Voting is not compulsory in the US. Moore quotes the horrifying statistic that while 60 million Americans voted for Trump and 63 million voted for Clinton, 100 million just didn’t vote at all.

The largest party in America is the "non-voters party" he concludes.

At heart, Fahrenheit 11/9, which takes its title from the day Trump became President-elect, is a call to action.

Moore uses the impressive Parkland high school student activists as his role models.