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Weather Underground, The
Generally favorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Directed by:
Sam Green
Bill Siegel
Release Date:
Theatrical: June 4, 2003
DVD: May 25, 2004
Running Time: 92 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
In 1969, a radical splinter group broke off from SDS (Students for a Democratic Society), convinced that only militant action could end racism, the war in Vietnam and the inequalities they felt inherent in a capitalist society. The Weather Underground engaged in numerous bombings (and failed bombings) that landed them on the FBI's Most Wanted list. Today - in light of a new age of terrorism - former members as well as their critics look back on the '70s and reflect on what they did and why they did it. (Film Forum)
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What The Critics Said
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Along with its historical value, The Weather Underground is also a terrific movie, energetic, and articulate. It's the don't-miss documentary of the season.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Desson Thomson
One of the most thought-provoking documentaries of recent times.
Read Full Review >Philadelphia Inquirer Carrie Rickey
Featuring seasoned warriors reflecting on whether we can best fight violence with violence is enormously compelling.
Read Full Review >Baltimore Sun Chris Kaltenbach
Offers a welcome perspective, reminding us that extremism in the name of a values system is nothing new -- not even on these shores.
Read Full Review >The Globe and Mail (Toronto) James Adams
Stands as an important film, perhaps even a timely one as once again the United States finds itself enmeshed in fending off a guerrilla war in a faraway land.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert
Whether the protest movement hastened the end of the Vietnam War is hard to say, but it is likely that Lyndon Johnson's decision not to run for re-election was influenced by the climate it helped to create.
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Ty Burr
Essential viewing for anyone who wants to know the roots -- and perils -- of modern political dissent.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold
A perceptive, fascinating and relatively evenhanded look at the most radical arm of the American student rebellion of the Vietnam era.
Read Full Review >LA Weekly Ernest Hardy
Through masterful editing, nimble music selection and smart use of documentary materials, the filmmakers shake the dust off cultural clichés to provide a provocative survey of the past. It’s a subversively sleek enterprise.
Read Full Review >Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan
A compelling piece of work that turns out to have unexpected relevance to the current world situation.
Read Full Review >The New York Times A.O. Scott
This terrifically smart and solid piece of filmmaking lets the former Weathermen, now in their 50's and older, speak into the camera and reveal a bit of their personal histories as well as what the peace movement meant to them.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Jack Mathews
The documentary plays it down the middle, neither condemning nor romanticizing the political outlaws, but making sense of who they were and what they did.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
It's curious that the filmmakers choose to end the story without reporting on Weatherwoman Kathy Boudin's involvement in an ill-fated 1981 robbery of a Brinks truck in New York State.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
Serves as a fascinating window into an era of radical dissent that now seems centuries past.
Read Full Review >Chicago Tribune Michael Wilmington
Notoriety, they won. The revolution, they didn't. That perhaps is the secret message of the film. Dylan was right. You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.
Read Full Review >Variety Scott Foundas
Assembled in a straightforward, television-style presentation that gets the better of it.
Read Full Review >Village Voice J. Hoberman
One leaves with barely a clue as to how this group was able to orchestrate a successful string of terror bombings.
Read Full Review >New York Post Lou Lumenick
Filmmakers Sam Green and Bill Siegel tend to shy from tough questions, allowing their subjects to wax nostalgic about bomb-throwing as yet another youthful folly of the '70s. That's tougher to swallow than some boomers' claims they didn't inhale.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 7.4 (out of 10) based on 5 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Yoon Min C. gave it a 6:
The filmmakers are clearly sympathetic with radicalism and saddened that 60s came to such end with orgies of violence and ruthlessness of orthodoxy. the film wavers from keeping the torch of progressivism lit to the pathetic reality that most of the weather underground members have either evolved into flaky armchair revolutionaries or remorseful sell-outs to mainstream society. essentially, it's as glib as the conceits of the radicals themselves, its ambiguity borne not so much of thoughtfulness but resignation that the world can NOT be changed overnight.
Gijs F. ('80) (Belgium) gave it a 9:
I saw the movie yesterday. Long time something could keep me 1h30 behind/before my television. I didn't know anything about the subject. Almost got sympathy with the people %-( Great documentary!
Paula W. gave it a 9:
This documentary tells the story exactly the way it should be told: it explains without apologizing, demonizing, or glorifying. These events seem much longer ago than just a generation, which makes it that much more amazing and important to see the principals telling their stories on screen, regrets and all.
