Manages to be serious without being extreme in its message that global warming is no longer something to be debated but addressed and fought NOW.
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08/23/07
The 11th Hour (2007)
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Reviews Counted:86
Fresh:58
Rotten:28
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
Reviews for The 11th Hour
If it gets people thinking about which light bulbs they buy and their current gas mileage and such, then it's good to have it in the world. It is, however, a panicky blur as documentaries go.
08/23/07
More concerned with emotionally manipulating the audience than breaking any new ground on the subject matter.
08/22/07
nothing less than a complete rethinking of the relationship between humankind and the planet on which it lives. Complex, challenging, mind-expanding, and sometimes mind-blowing
08/22/07
A sobering look at the astounding changes in our planet over the last generation -- and the bleak future that awaits us if we don’t get our act together.
08/20/07
a film that wraps its message around a hurled brick.
08/18/07
Seeming to cater to the ADD generation even as it tackles a subject of enormous scope, The 11th Hour doesn't quite get the job done.
08/18/07
Persuasively damning... some might say these ideas are still being exhaustively (though inexplicably) debated as a political issue, but perhaps the film's greatest strength is in making its hysterical, activism-now urgencies an emotional issue.
08/18/07
Hugely effective documentary is a terrifying vision of exactly what's in store if we don't pay greater attention to what we're doing to the planet in our blind rush toward 'progress.'
08/17/07
The 11th Hour is slick and passionate, but neither persuasive nor helpful; it's a headache of a film directed like an Errol Morris project, but with half the substance. It's clearly preaching to the choir, but even they may find it off-key.
08/17/07
Challenges us to change our consciousness and transform our lives by living lightly on the Earth in harmony with nature; offering a road map to a sustainable future, this is one of the most important documentaries of the year.
08/17/07
An unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about our environmental calamity [that] is such essential viewing.
08/17/07
Top CriticMuch of the data presented here is staggering, in both its simplicity and breadth of impact.
08/17/07
If you get through the first hour without slitting your throat, the cautiously optimistic last third offers some intriguing options.
08/17/07
DiCaprio's star power probably propelled this film into release, even though Gore has stolen much of his thunder.
08/16/07
Its foretelling of gloom and doom almost make the entire idea of worrying about the global climate change crisis seem unnecessary, seeing as we're all apparently going to die by our own industrialized hands.
08/16/07
It is unabashedly a documentary of talking heads, but it works.
08/16/07
Top CriticThe 11th Hour is good-for-you cinema in content, shape and form. There are far badder things.
08/16/07
Takes a doom and gloom approach to the earth's current plight, but also offers a ray of hope and intelligent solutions for making a change.
08/16/07
If you still need an argument about global warming, the documentary -- makes a good one.
08/16/07
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