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His (Townsend) staging has a tumult, a multi-POV immediacy that brings to mind Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday."
Read the full reviewIt's the next best thing to being there, in that it's likely to make shuddering viewers intensely glad that they weren't.
Read the full reviewThe result is not quite a documentary and not quite a drama, but interesting all the same. It uses the approach of Haskell Wexler's "Medium Cool" (1969), but without the same urgency.
Read the full reviewWhile it makes no bones about where its sympathies lie, these fictional stories show a genuine fascination with the role politics plays on both sides of such confrontations and how things can spin out of control with no single person to blame.
Read the full reviewPicture's ambition, cogency and decent performances make up for its uneven aspects. Woody Harrelson has some especially good moments as a cop.
Read the full reviewThe chief culprits are Townsend's TV-movie characterizations and a very muddled message.
Read the full reviewGetting an inside view on events is fascinating enough to carry the movie.
Read the full reviewA drama is only as convincing as its characters. The people awkwardly forced together in Battle in Seattle are rhetorical mouthpieces tied to the sketchy plotlines of a so-so Hollywood ensemble movie.
Read the full reviewTownsend's sincerity, his admiration for the idealism of the people behind the anti-WTO protests, is never in doubt, but combining drama with historical re-creation is frankly a challenge his filmmaking skills are not up to.
Read the full reviewIt's a movie by a true believer in anti-globalization, and it may win a few converts, but not among devotees of convincing, capable cinema.
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The Metascore® designation for this movie is 54
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