Spurlock didn't find Osama in film

PARK CITY, Utah, Jan. 23 (UPI) -- U.S. filmmaker Morgan Spurlock reportedly didn't find the real-life title character in his latest movie "Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?"

The tongue-in-cheek documentary, which premiered at the Sundance film festival, is about Spurlock's trek through the Middle East in hopes of finding the infamous Saudi terrorist.

Until the film debuted, it was unclear whether Spurlock had actually found bin Laden.

However, the Los Angeles Times confirmed Spurlock didn't find him, any of his hiding places or former cohorts, nor did he conduct in-person interviews with any of bin Laden's family members during the course of the project.

What Spurlock did do, the Times said, was raise the point that finding bin Laden probably would do nothing to lessen the violence in the region, since the wanted man's ideas have already spread and the number of his followers grown, eclipsing what he could accomplish as an individual.

USA Today said the film becomes more about finding out what people in the Middle East think about terrorism, the United States, Israel and each other than about tracking down bin Laden.

"What I try to do is take really heavy stuff that's hard to digest and make it so you don't get bored," Spurlock said at the screening.