Nearly a decade after waging war with New Line Cinema over the final cut of American History X (1998), British filmmaker Tony Kaye returns with Lake of Fire, his electrifying documentary about the most bitterly divisive issue in contemporary American society: abortion. A monumental achievement, 17 years in the making and financed by Kaye himself, Lake of Fire reveals Kaye to be a far more thoughtful and mature filmmaker than his loose cannon public persona suggests. Kaye has stated that he wanted "to make a film that was unbiased and that enthusiastically investigated both sides of the coin." And to a great extent, he succeeds brilliantly in Lake of Fire, which gives fairly equal time to adamant pro-life and pro-choice advocates spanning the political and religious spectrum.
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