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Battle in Seattle
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Mixed or average reviews
Based on 17 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Action | Drama
Written by: Stuart Townsend
Directed by: Stuart Townsend
Release Date:
Theatrical: September 19, 2008
DVD: March 10, 2009
Running Time: 100 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: R for language and some violence
Starring Isaach De Bankole, Woody Harrelson, Ray Liotta, Martin Henderson, Michelle Rodriguez, Andre Benjamin, Connie Nielsen, and Joshua Jackson
Django, Sam, Lou and Jay are united in their desire to be heard and to make a difference, for these protesters, this is very personal and the stakes are higher than mere politics. A peaceful demonstration to stop the WTO talks quickly escalates into a full-scale riot and an eventual State of Emergency results. The streets are mayhem, the WTO is paralyzed. Caught in the crossfire are Seattle residents, including its beleaguered mayor, a riot cop on the streets and his pregnant wife. The choices they make will change their lives forever and prove, ultimately, that ordinary people can change the world. (Redwood Palms Pictures)
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What The Critics Said
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Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman
His (Townsend) staging has a tumult, a multi-POV immediacy that brings to mind Paul Greengrass' "Bloody Sunday."
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
The 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 Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Tasha Robinson
It's the next best thing to being there, in that it's likely to make shuddering viewers intensely glad that they weren't.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Kirk Honeycutt
While 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 Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker
Is it too much to ask that the fictional scenes have at least some of the complexity and unpredictability of the real-life theater?
Read Full Review >Variety Dennis Harvey
Picture's ambition, cogency and decent performances make up for its uneven aspects. Woody Harrelson has some especially good moments as a cop.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
Flapping like a scarecrow in the wind, Battle in Seattle is too frantic to make more than a transitory impression, yet too responsibly hackneyed in its characterizations to achieve pure tabloid hysteria.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
A 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 Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
In his directing debut Battle in Seattle, actor Stuart Towns end does an impressive job (on a shoestring budget) of re-creating the massive street protests that forced the cancellation of the World Trade Organization summit in 1999.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Reyhan Harmanci
Getting an inside view on events is fascinating enough to carry the movie.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
The chief culprits are Townsend's TV-movie characterizations and a very muddled message.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) Liam Lacey
Near the end of the movie, Django jokes that, after the protests, people may still not know what the WTO is, but "they know it's bad." That's a fair summation of how much insight Battle in Seattle provides for its viewers.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
Townsend'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 Full Review >Washington Post John Anderson
It'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.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Joe Neumaier
Well-intentioned but as earnest as a college freshman discovering campus politics.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.6 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
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