Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Gutsycurene
Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.
Fatma Suarez
The movie's neither hopeful in contrived ways, nor hopeless in different contrived ways. Somehow it manages to be wonderful
MartinHafer
"Pandora's Promise" is a challenging and engaging documentary about nuclear power. However, instead of it being promoted by the usual sources, this film is about LIBERALS pushing for nuclear power. This shows a divide between them and the old fashioned anti-nuke liberals. However, this film does NOT mean that it represents this group joining in with the Conservatives here in America because much of the basis for their new-found love of radioactivity is their fear of global warming. In essence, it is as if they are now saying 'we were wrong about nuclear power...we're sorry...but believe us now about global warming'--an argument that is bound to alienate many.So is this a bad film? No. While I think it is inconsistent in some ways, it IS thought-provoking and interesting from start to finish. But, occasionally it made me question some of their facts and conclusions--such as saying that 3,000,000 folks a year die as a result of fossil fuels! Where did they get that figure from and why does the film also mock the fantastic death figures thrown about by the anti-nuke movement. I BOTH are way overstating their cases in order to make their points. As for me, I'd like to see more about this subject but also from different sources.
lastwaveinc
Watching this made me laugh many times at how uninformed and juvenile these environmentalists are. They simply railed against nuclear energy without knowing any of the science. The most striking insight was when it came to global warming. They dismiss those who don't believe in anthropogenic global warming EXACTLY in the same way they now dismiss the anti nuclear energy crowd. They are as poorly informed and educated about global warming as were about nuclear energy.Having said all this the documentary gives you insight into how the environmentalists gin up faux angst and anger based upon emotion and fraud rather than science.
Rob-O-Cop
This really was quite a disappointing film. It states it's going to look at the issue but then hardly manages to hide it's agenda at all. Anti nukes are portrayed as nutters as they select the mad woman who can't back up their stories and pro nukes are all chin stroking intellectuals who used to be anti but have come to realise the error of their ways. All problems with nuke power was played down, and the safety can't melt down new reactors were hyped big time, accidents can't happen they explained, but see, they kind of did, just a couple of years ago, and they still haven't figured out how to deal with it, or if that can, and that is the key problem with Nuclear power. They start a fire that no one has figure out how to put out yet. I'm actually pro nuclear power, it makes sense, we've got massive amounts of it and the universe is filled with this stuff going down, BUT we can not and should not use it routinely until we figure out how to control it, and we have not done that yet. The fukushima meltdowns are unsolvable,and that will always be a risk for these accident proof facilities. Get back to us when you've got that one solved. Thanks for the propaganda though. nice to see it so we can practice identifying it in daily life.
Sophia Aragon
The documentary is a complete mess in regards to facts. A few are there to be sure, but so scattered and disconnected that you will learn nothing about nuclear energy, good or bad. Indeed, if you have a real interest in the subject, it will take less effort to simply pick a physics book and start reading from chapter one.What the documentary does (if it does anything at all) is to display a tiny portion of human stupidity. From activists to scientists, and various other creatures, we hear unsophisticated social/political theories that make absolutely no sense but that they are delighted to tell the world about nonetheless. And when the documentary does allow a professional politician to speak (e.g. Thatcher), it is to manipulate the audience by misconstruing the very manipulation of the politician herself. In other words, it is a mess.In sum, it isn't worth watching on account of the presumed topic. Regarding the human folly, one can turn the TV on any channel for much of the same.
