Unlawful Killing: Cannes Review

9:40 AM PDT 5/13/2011 by Duane Byrge

Funded by Dodi Fayed's father Mohamed, doc presents several far-fetched conspiracy theories about the ex-royal's death.

CANNES -- On the heels of the British Royal Wedding and Princess Diana’s upcoming 50th birthday, Dodi Fayed’s father, Mohamad Al Fayed, has helped finance this documentary film to inform the world of the far-reaching, royal-inspired conspiracy that killed the late princess and his son. Instead, this scattergun film should only backfire on the conspiracy theorists that cling to the notion that speeding through a Parisian tunnel with a drunken driver at the wheel is not a plausible cause of death. If the Monty Python troupe ever wanted to lampoon conspiracy-theory filmmakers, it would be hard to top this one.