The 11th Hour
The 11th Hour
PG | 17 August 2007 (USA)
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A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restoring the planet's ecosystems. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolse

Reviews
Kattiera Nana I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment
Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.
killer2 i think that this film and all that global warming is one of the biggest lies ever ... film is very good made but it is one big lie. it might be an influence of pollution into global warming ... but not as much as they show us. if anyone want to know more about that ... just try to research. there is many many lie's in what American movie maker are poisoning us. (and they government), start to convince You with 2 titles for the start: zeitgeist: the movie and afterwards check 2nd part: zeitgeist: addendum. maybe there ios a little info about global warming, but if You seen this You might have a future need to see more of that kind of movie. Anyway ... good made film but i don't believe that this movie present real source of our problems ...
Jan van Tonder This movie is an excellent documentary about the current state of our planet and the direction mankind is heading. I feel very strongly about environmental issues and have developed some sensitivity and understanding of the topics covered in the movie.The persons interviewed in the movie have a profound understanding of what they are talking about. The movie is very intelligently made and visualized.People who at least feel sympathy towards environmental issues will find this movie to be highly interesting and enlightening. On the other hand I think the movie is to intellectual and complex to introduce the covered topics to environmental newbies who I guess could find the movie dull due to a lack of understanding.
bob the moo Although I'm far from backing up my ideals with all my actions, I am pretty much in the choir when it comes to this eco-message-documentary fronted by film-star Leonardo DiCaprio because I am liberal, make an effort to recycle and have the good taste to worry about my resource use (I know how that sounds but at least I'm honest). So for me it is not an issue to review the film without it turning into me taking issue with the overall message of the film. If anything I risk the other trap that many have fallen into – which is to review the message and not the film. So let me just get that trap out the way by saying that the message, in my opinion, is worthy and important and I have no doubt that all those involved in this film felt this and were keen to get it made and out to as big an audience as possible.Reviewing the film is a different thing altogether though because while the aim may have been to get the message out there and push this agenda, the actual film itself does the opposite due to the way it is delivered. The structure, content and style of the film is flawed across the board and it did put me off – leading me to wonder how someone who was sceptical to begin with would cope with the flaws in it as a film. Where The Inconvenient Truth builds its case and took the viewer along with it, 11th Hour just jumps right in and never stops hitting the viewer with information. Nothing wrong with that in concept but when it is done in a poorly structured and fast-paced way it does rather feel like you are being preached at by a hell-fire reverend rather than talked to or even lectured (in the academic sense of the word). The visuals don't help partly because they are just frantic and unnecessary at times but also because they clash with the much more sedentary talking heads that fill the vast majority of the running time. The end result is the feeling that the film is just trying to bully you into submission rather than carefully taking you down a path where even some sceptics will be conceding points.There is plenty of good stuff in here and those that are already won over may not even feel the flaws in delivery as they nod their heads in agreement. However, while I can agree on the importance of the message and the aims of the makers, good intentions alone do not make for a good film and here the delivery is consistently weak in a couple of key areas to the detriment of the film. A shame but this is one for the choir and even then it needs a chunk of good will to ignore the film and concentrate solely on the message.
lastliberal The best thing about this film was the fact that it did not focus on the Earth's destruction, but on man's eventual demise as a species. The earth with survive our rape and plunder. It has been here for 4.5 billion years, while we have been here but 150,000. We will eventually join the 99.999% of the species that have lived on this planet and who are now extinct. How quickly we join them is up to us, but we will eventually go the way of the dinosaur.Through our heavy consumption and trash creation, we are rapidly stripping all of the resources from the Earth and polluting what we don't consume. Soon, we will be faced with the inevitable - it's all gone. If you haven't seen "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash," then it should be on your list as a "must see." Along with "An Inconvenient Truth," this film tells us what will happen if we stay the course.The only fault I found in the film was the rapidity with which it presented information. This stuff needs to be digested slowly, and we got it rapid fire. Still, it is an important addition to the story of humankind and how we are planning our own destruction.