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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:58
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Average Rating:6.5/10
Consensus: Well-researched and swimming in scientific data, this global warming documentary offers some practical and wide-ranging solutions to our climate crisis.
Theatrical Release:21-03-2008
Synopsis: Environmental documentary 11th HOUR resides at the polar opposite of escapist summer fare, its mission to firmly confront viewers about the indelible human footprint that humans have left on this... [More]
Starring: Mikhail Gorbachev, Stephen Hawking, Andrew Weil
Director: Leila Conners Petersen, Nadia Conners
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.
The 11th Hour presents its argument clearly: Disregarding the planetary repercussions of human behavior, or rather misbehavior, holds tragic consequences.
No matter what time it is in the grand, cosmic scheme of things, The 11th Hour arrives about a day late and an eco-dollar short of An Inconvenient Truth
While there's the requisite "you can make a difference" section toward the end, you'll still likely walk out with a sense of impending doom, which may be fully appropriate but probably not what the filmmakers intended.
For all its scare tactics, The 11th Hour simply isn't that compelling, and we're talking about the end of the world here.
The film almost overwhelms the audience with information, throwing out so many facts and figures, and so much footage, that it's all hard to process.
The movie needed to reflect its own lesson: Less would have been more.
In the end, your reaction to Hour may depend on your feelings about humanity's collective common sense.
The 11th Hour made me realize that what's wrong with "preaching to the choir" isn't the intention to fire up a political base. It's the preaching.
The movie is presenting its case in such a uniformly insistent tone, as the directors pile on one voice of doom after another.
Hour, even with its somewhat tedious presentation, has profound ideas to share, and in this naked intent lies a disturbing, chilling tale of a tomorrow we all can avoid through action and some good old-fashioned consideration.
As depressing as the first two-thirds of the film is, the last third is surprisingly empowering and hopeful.
As a call to action, it's sincere but flawed, and as an inquiry into humankind's bafflingly self-destructive tendencies, it scarcely scratches the surface.
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August 19, 2007:
Box Office Guru Wrapup: Superbad Opens Big at #1
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August 16, 2007:
Critical Consensus: Superbad is Certified Fresh; The Invasion Crash-Lands
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July 16, 2007:
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