The only safe place is on the run.
CIA employee Edward Snowden leaks thousands of classified documents to the press.
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- Filipe Manuel Netoon TMDB · Mar 20235/10
**It's a forgettable film, with nothing remarkable about it other than the fact that it makes an open defense of Edward Snowden and what he did.** Oliver Stone has given us a film that could not be more controversial: a biography of Edward Snowden, an ex-military and former US spy who worked as an intelligence analyst for the CIA and the NSA. It's not worth getting into the script, almost everyone knows who Snowden is and what he did. What varies a lot is how each person faces it. To many Americans, he is a traitor who has endangered world security and the fight against terrorism. For others, he denounced the way the US controls the world and uses information (and the way people practically abdicate their private life through social networks) in order to gain advantages in the field of macroeconomics and geostrategy. Acting as a panegyric, the film is militant, takes sides and defends Snowden and his view of things, portraying him as someone of courage, a man of integrity who served his country and the fight against terrorism, but who found that he was part of the problem rather than the solution, and that he was serving much darker interests than he realized. Seeing the film is th
Read the whole review on TMDB - GenerationofSwineon TMDB · Jan 20231/10
What happened to Oliver Stone? Once upon a time you could sit down and watch a film, and knew he was the director just by the cuts alone, not to mention the atmosphere and over-all look of the presentation. This doesn't look like an Oliver Stone film. The script sounds like a Stone film. The plot is certainly an Oliver Stone plot. The subject matter and how it's handled is totally Stone. But the film, well, it's an Oliver Stone film. The actors involved, well, Joseph Gordon-Levitt is certainly someone Stone would cast, but the long list of cameos of A and B grade stars comes down to a sprinkle and not a downpour like they used to. And the look of the film, where are the Stone cuts? It looks like anyone in Hollywood could have directed the script and made it into the movie that it is. The director doesn't leave his mark Snowden like he had on his earlier work. And, honestly, agree with his politics or not, the reason people go to see his movies is because he's directing them. Snowden doesn't feel like he really directed it, and you walk away feeling robbed because of it. The movie would have been great with anyone else, but, honestly, we didn't want to see this film made by anyone e
Read the whole review on TMDB - Renoon TMDB · Dec 20167/10
**He who became a people's hero by betraying his own nation!** I had like to begin by saying I'm not an American and I haven't seen the Oscar winning documentary 'Citizenfour'. But I'm very much aware of everything about it through the all kinds of coverages. So my perspective about the film will be true and about the content will be neutral. I have known about what this film dealt since the day it all began. I did not care much, but there are things to concern about it. Like if it is necessary to tap to prevent the serious threats, there's nothing wrong it that. Because, even if they have our private contents, they are not going to publish it or make money out of it. So that makes what Ed did was unethical and betrayal for his own country. In another angle, NSA's illegal surveillance questionable in many ways, but wrong is only a tiny thing. Because eyeing every single one of us seems wrong, though without examining all, nothing confirms, differentiate between right and wrong. So coming to the film, it was decently made one. The main reason is it was too long and many parts were boring. The theme was powerful like it was a one liner, but the film contents were very weak. Except Sn
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Cast
- Joseph Gordon-LevittEdward Snowden
- Shailene WoodleyLindsay Mills
- Melissa LeoLaura Poitras
- Zachary QuintoGlenn Greenwald
- Tom WilkinsonEwen MacAskill
- Scott EastwoodTrevor James
- Timothy OlyphantCIA Agent Geneva
- Ben SchnetzerGabriel Sol
- LaKeith StanfieldPatrick Haynes
- Rhys IfansCorbin O'Brian
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- Oliver StoneDirector
- Kieran FitzgeraldScreenplay
- Oliver StoneScreenplay
- Luke HardingNovel
- Anatoly KucherenaNovel
- Anthony Dod MantleDirector of Photography
- Craig ArmstrongOriginal Music Composer
- Alex MárquezEditor
- Lee PercyEditor
- Moritz BormanProducer
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