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11th Hour, The
EMAILPRINTWarner Independent Pictures
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 30 critic reviews
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Based on 15 votes
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Nadia Conners
Leonardo DiCaprio
Leila Conners Petersen
Directed by:
Nadia Conners
Leila Conners Petersen
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 17, 2007
DVD: April 8, 2008
Running Time: minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING:
Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, William McDonough, Bill McKibben, Kenny Ausubel, Janine Benyus, Sylvia Earle Ph.D., Paul Hawken, and Stephen Hawking
The 11th Hour is the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how we’ve arrived at this moment -- how we live, how we impact the earth’s ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. 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 Woolsey and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who discuss the most important issues that face our planet and people. (Warner Independent Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Christian Science Monitor Peter Rainer
Considerably less slick than "An Inconvenient Truth," and no less urgent.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
The word bears repeating, so everyone from Andrew Weil to Stephen Hawking to Mikhail Gorbachev is here to speak the still-inconvenient truth. The filmmaking, however, is far more relentless than in that Oscar-winning Al Gore slide show.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kevin Crust
Thankfully for audiences, 11th Hour is not without hope. The filmmakers save the most exhilarating portion for last when they ask what's being done about the problems.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Judith Lewis
Ultimately a triumph of redemptive ideas that DiCaprio -- God bless his celebrity -- may finally succeed in transporting from the environmental fringe to the mainstream moviegoing audience.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Manohla Dargis
An unnerving, surprisingly affecting documentary about our environmental calamity, is such essential viewing.
Read Full Review >Premiere Aaron Hillis
As The 11th Hour's message of Profound Importance warrants a four-star rating, the film itself does not.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
An impassioned ecology-themed documentary that ultimately is more rewarding for informational than cinematic reasons.
Read Full Review >Salon.com Andrew O'Hehir
Arguably a more important movie, which more clearly lays out what must be done to save the world, and how we can begin.
Read Full Review >New York Magazine David Edelstein
It isn’t much of a movie (unless your aesthetic was formed in high-school science class), but it will be hugely informative to aliens who land on this planet in a thousand years and wonder why there’s no welcoming committee.
Read Full Review >Variety Justin Chang
Presents the viewer with reams of depressing data, loads of hand-wringing about the woeful state of humanity and, finally, some altogether fascinating ideas about how to go about solving the climate crisis.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum
Though the filmmaking isn't everything it might have been (the opening montage is especially clumsy), their argument is compelling, absorbing, and urgent.
Read Full Review >Austin Chronicle Marc Savlov
While it's a well-constructed doc, full of relevant information and geared toward those people who still might be fence-sitters on the subject, there's something missing from The 11th Hour's lengthy procession of talking heads: a sense of maddened outrage.
Read Full Review >Entertainment Weekly Lisa Schwarzbaum
This activist documentary -- alternately impassioned, despairing, edifying, and hectoring about all the ways humans are screwing up the earth in a death rattle of hubris -- shouts, People, do something! In contrast, "An Inconvenient Truth" feels positively hushed.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
As much a call to action as a documentary, it's a compelling and sobering lesson in the devastating effect of human industry on the planet. But a lesson nonetheless.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
If you get through the first hour without slitting your throat, the cautiously optimistic last third offers some intriguing options.
Read Full Review >USA Today Scott Bowles
The 11th Hour is a bit like "An Inconvenient Truth" at Woodstock: a little spacey, a little preoccupied with self-love and prone to the occasional freakout.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Perhaps the most sobering statistic in The 11th Hour: Some 50,000 species a year are disappearing. Someday, it might be humans.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Like any good religious sermon, it follows its scary vision of hell with a possibility of last-minute redemption.
Read Full Review >Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman
In the end, your reaction to "Hour" may depend on your feelings about humanity's collective common sense.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Nelson Pressley
The picture almost beats its theme to death -- the first hour is enough -- but the imaginative designers dreaming up a cleaner future end this Cassandra cry on an upbeat note.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Phillips
If it gets people thinking about which light bulbs they buy and their current gas mileage and such, then it's good to have it in the world. It is, however, a panicky blur as documentaries go.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Michael Sragow
Stripped of texture, even the sharpest comments come off as bromides.
Read Full Review >Portland Oregonian Marc Mohan
Well-intentioned but overblown environmental agitprop.
Read Full Review >Miami Herald Connie Ogle
Feels more like a lecture you've already heard than a galvanizing call to action.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
This movie, for all its noble intentions, is a bore.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Mike D'Angelo
A cautionary eco-doc so earnest and moth-eaten it should properly be seen on filmstrip during fourth-period social studies.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
The 11th Hour is slick and passionate, but neither persuasive nor helpful; it's a headache of a film directed like an Errol Morris project, but with half the substance. It's clearly preaching to the choir, but even they may find it off-key.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 6.6 (out of 10) based on 15 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Jay H. gave it a6:
I don't doubt their is a serious environmental problem, but I think this documentary paints an overly grim and exaggerated view. It is informative though, and visually it is excellently done. I remember in the 1970's there was a panic caused about overpopulation, and their doomsday prediction never occurred.
Chris B. gave it a10:
I am giving this film a perfect score based purely on the depth and insight of the message. I am surprised by some of the negative reviews of this film and I can only guess that some people were unaware that it was a documentary. If you enjoyed An Inconvenient Truth even the smallest bit, then this is a must see.
Paul F. gave it an8:
I just finished watching the 11 Hour last night and my impressions were that the wide host of interviewees not only appropriate touched on all the necessary points but that they were amazingly articulate and interesting as well. The Documentary also has some fantastic but often horrific images. These really hit home what those being interviewed had to say. After a while it got a little doom and gloom and I was wondering when they were going to get to the solutions providing a glimmer of hope. Not only did they do this but they gave more time to it than many documentaries on the subject which all to often only lightly touch upon the subject in the last few minutes. That is my biggest problem with the Inconvenient Truth. The 11th Hour also has a whole bonus section entirely devoted to solutions which I thought incredibly wise and will probably have a much greater effect because of it. Though I am thankful Dicaprio produced this timely film unfortunately I think he was the weakest link in it. I felt either a different narrator or none at all would have been best. Overall still it is a must see in my book and I am thankful we have yet another wonderful environmental documentary out there.
Joe S. gave it a3:
Repetitive, doggedly so. dismal and depressing. a far cry from "an inconvenient truth". turns the viewer off. lacking in hope or inspiration. Just a bunch of talking heads.
Daniel gave it a9:
Along with "No End In Sight," one of the best documentaries during the last years.
Alam gave it a9:
An intelligent, very well conceived documentary. It deserved a wider audience.
Enrique gave it a10:
Excellent! One of the most important movies later.
