Doomtomylo
a film so unique, intoxicating and bizarre that it not only demands another viewing, but is also forgivable as a satirical comedy where the jokes eventually take the back seat.
Bluebell Alcock
Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies
Cheryl
A clunky actioner with a handful of cool moments.
sergepesic
In a polarized world we live in, where greed became not only acceptable, but a virtue, this movie will not make any difference.The egotism and selfishness of our culture will be the end of us as species. Well, we all get what we deserve. Capitalism as destructive, seducing force, doesn't see any need to curb its lunacy. It must grow bigger and fatter, till explodes in our faces, and takes our cowardly world with it.And we all knew it might happen... But, we liked our trinkets and gadgets, our comforts and little pleasures, that became necessary to forget the out of control expanding of our work loads and demands. So, this is the gate in the near frightening future. I hope we all enjoy it.
Robert J. Maxwell
It's a documentary about global warming or, more specifically, about anthropogenic global warming. Our host and narrator is a very serious Pete Postlethwaite. The opening shows us scenes, most computer-generated images, of a Las Vegas buried under sand dunes and a Sidney Opera House burning amidst the rubble. The message, repeated several times, is, "We could have saved ourselves." The producers are more certain about that than I am. The question is not whether the earth is heating up -- of course it is -- but how much our own activities contribute to that warming. If we ceased all emission of greenhouse gases at once, could we really "save ourselves"? The answer can't be a simple "yes" because we don't know for sure. The only correct answer is "probably" -- with a high degree of probability, and probably very high.However, my judgment is based on a scientific approach to social problems, a filthy tendency I picked up during a career in research. But this unnerving documentary isn't aimed at people like myself, who take science seriously. It's aimed at an audience who either haven't thought much about the ultimate effects of global warming or have managed to convince themselves -- or to let others convince them -- that the whole issue is a liberal-inspired hoax with Al Gore at the bottom of everything. That's almost as sad as the message of the film. The people who need most to see it will never watch it because it challenges an ideology to which they've committed themselves.The first example is presented by an eighty-two year old French guide to climbing in the Alps. He begins by leading a married couple down what appears to be a quarter mile of ladders bolted to a cliff face of rock, and he remarks that when he began his career there were no ladders because climbers could step directly off the cliff onto the glacier. Since then, the glacier has melted and dropped hundreds of feet. I didn't need convincing. I climbed, or rather walked, on the Columbia Icefield in Alberta, Canada, for the first time in 1953. I visited it again in 1988 and the edge of the ice had retreated about the length of a football field, one hundred yards or so, the glacier having melted to that extent over a mere 35 years.It's an important film but not a perfect one. The producers sort of skipped over the root cause of the processes they condemn. Regrettably, we can reduce our greenhouse gas emissions all we want, but there really is only one sure and final way to cut our contribution to global warming. As long as human being make use of an energy source there will be some environmental impact, large or small. Eventually we'll need to face the fact that there are simply too many of us. Nobody has exact figures on the world's population but the best estimate is that in 1950 there were about two billion of us. Today there are somewhat more than six billion. And, at current growth rates, by 2050 we should have doubled that figure to twelve billion. Every one of those twelve billion will be a contaminant, and China is the only nation currently addressing the problem -- in its own interest, not that of the globe. We all need a long-distance wake-up call from Thomas Malthus.And what is America doing? We're electing politicians who decry all science that doesn't fit their ideology, not just global warming but evolution. (Other countries have done such things before, proving the superiority of the Aryan race and the fact that acquired traits are inherited.) Two years ago, an elected representative stood on the floor of Congress, railing against the global warming hoax, took a deep breath, blew it out, and said, "That's carbon dioxide. See? It's not a poison gas!" A Missouri Congressman, a member of the House Science and Technology Committee, who believes that a woman can't conceived after being raped, recently told us, "I'm not anti-science. I'm pro-science. Only let's have science we can believe in." "The Age of Stupid." Even if everything else about the film were wrong, they'd have gotten the title right.
Erwin Wolff
I can be quick on this one. It is a typically "smug liberal" kind of movie where you're go in the movie as a normal person and come out of it as a hippie anti-war anti-America watermelon -green from the outside, red from the inside- liberal.I saw it accidentally here on Dutch public television. And what a shame it was. The public broadcasters broadcasting propaganda that could have have been produced by the former Sovjet Union. However the level of speculation in the movie is so high that I doubt anyone will take it serious (except smug liberals). Although Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth is obviously exaggerated, at the very least there is some scientific evidence to support it. This movie is pure propaganda because it displays a future that is pure the speculation of some hippies.And nobody should see it. Be warned for a wasted afternoon or evening if you do.
mgjk
In this film, set in the year 2055, society passed the tipping point of anthropogenic global warming (AGW). Runaway climate change and a cascading failure in our ability to meet the resource requirements of our society led to famine, global war and collapse.The archivist, a character sitting comfortably in his high-tech, climate controlled, 2055 office environment, with thousands of servers running full tilt, minority-report multi-touch displays, in something that looks like an oil-platform sunk into the floor of the arctic, looks down condescendingly at the audience while reviewing clips from present day society.People who don't buy into the theory of AGW will be insulted. People who do buy into the theory of AGW should be embarrassed to be lumped into the ignorant technofetishism and the portrayal of AGW activists as alarmist kooks who think the apocalypse is around the corner.If you want to stand on the street corner and scream that the end is neigh! then this is the movie for you!
