Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking, Andrew Weil
A heavy dose of hysteria along with copious scientific data means that, even at 90 minutes, it can feel unwieldy and quite overwhelming. Still, if you're able to handle the pace, it is in the end, a positive eye-opener.
Top Critic Top Critic A cautionary tale sounding the alarm that we're close to the tipping point of wholesale ecological disaster, if not already irreversibly past it.
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While it's a well-constructed doc, full of relevant information and geared toward those people who still might be fence-sitters on the subject, there's something missing... a sense of maddened outrage.
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On a subject as grand as the planet, we need expert testimony. That's what The 11th Hour delivers. Finally. The film's power is its objective and authoritative declarations.
What is there to say about The 11th Hour? There's absolutely nothing wrong with it. It does exactly what it sets out to do.
It's almost an eco-message companion piece to the recent Iraq documentary, 'No End in Sight': It relies on the strength and logic of its arguments rather than on appeals to emotion or partisanship to make its points.
...feels soft and flashy, a visual tour of a coming apocalypse (what's the story of the polar bear wandering through what looked like a burning garbage dump?) that regrettably seems to have no faith in its presumptive audience's attention span.
It's not a movie with a lot of answers, but The 11th Hour does push the debate further down the road.
The arguments the movie presents are powerful, necessary and, most importantly, underexplored by an increasingly distracted mainstream media.
Differentiates itself from others in the genre...by focusing on the big picture.
As a PSA, The 11th Hour is an extremely important work, but as a motion picture, it's ripe for recycling.
After all the doom and gloom, they do offer rays of hope in the intelligent designs of architects and designers who suggest that remedies may lie in creating eco-friendly structures. The fascinating innovation served up here should have been what the bulk
Felt like a college lecture more than a cinema experience, but is essential viewing.
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