Snowden (2016)
Genre: Biography / Thriller
Duration: 134 minuten
Country:
United Kingdom / France / Germany / United States
Directed by: Oliver Stone
Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Shailene Woodley and Melissa Leo
IMDb score:
7,3 (173.010)
Releasedate: 15 September 2016
Snowden plot
"The only safe place is on the run."
After a brief career in the US Army where he broke both legs while training, Edward Snowden was determined to continue serving his country. That's how he ended up at the CIA where his career in the Secret Service began. However, when he leaks thousands of classified documents to the press, Snowden is forced to flee the United States and seek refuge elsewhere.
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Actors and actresses
Edward Snowden
Lindsay Mills
Laura Poitras
Glenn Greenwald
Ewen MacAskill
Trevor James
CIA Agent Geneva
Gabriel Sol
Patrick Haynes
Corbin O'Brian
Reviews & comments
freek_93
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- 668 messages
- 1670 votes
Despite the fact that this is a special story, this film is not good.
Snowden in the news is genuinely interesting to me. However, the filming is nothing. The story is told slowly and very dull. It lacks tension. Actually, the movie is too long. I often hoped that the film would be over, but alas. The whole drama happening with his girlfriend was totally unnecessary and way too Hollywood like.
The good things were that the CIA's programs were well explained. That it really became clear why Snowden finally did what he did. The ending was good too.
But again: Too boring, too slow and too little tension to keep your attention for 134 minutes.
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mrklm
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- 12190 messages
- 10362 votes
Joseph Gordon-Levitt once again proves to be one of the best actors of his generation by phenomenally playing Edward Snowden, the notorious whistleblower who leaked thousands of documents showing that the US government has access to emails and phone calls from ordinary Americans. citizens demanded without informing the citizens. In this thrilling thriller, Snowden is enlisted and how he risks his own safety and that of his loved ones to bring the truth to light. Anyone who has seen the documentary 'citizenfour' will recognize that Levitt is almost a doppelganger of Snowden (who appears briefly at the end) and Olver Stone knows how to build up the tension well. Moreover, the film never lapses into technical details, making the film captivating from start to finish.
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Roger Thornhill
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- 6195 messages
- 2546 votes
It's probably not Stone's intention, but as the film progressed, I was more and more amazed (and not without admiration) how clever those programmers at the CIA and the NSA are, that they can extract so much information from so many phones and laptops. suck and can infiltrate so many networks. The fact that it would be nice if they were a little less controversial with that is unfortunately often a secondary concern. Fascinating film for those who are not bothered by the fairly cluttered career that leads in permanent or casual service through various departments of the American secret service, with, as is often the case with Stone, so many well-known headlines that I am sometimes taken out of the story: "Is that well Rhys Ifans? Hey, Nicolas Cage! Gosh, funny, I think that's Timothy Olyphant!" Fortunately, I find the subject too interesting to really bother with all those cameos, but the real urgency is a bit lacking here.
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