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Remarkable documentary.
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90Ahead of us lie many more documentaries similar in tone and spirit to this one. We can hope that at least a few of them are as intelligently and artfully made.
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88Here's a powerhouse of a documentary that makes you feel mad as hell and unwilling to take it anymore.
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88What's less clear, and more maddening, is how several generations of Ecuadorans have been left to live on toxic land, their health and livelihoods compromised, while lawyers file motions and counter-motions and blame is passed around.
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If the movie is any indication, Chevron would have the public believe there was no Amazon at all -- something people might be willing to believe, were Berlinger not sticking Crude in their faces.
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83It's a David-and-Goliath tale, full of anger and disturbing accusation, but it's also inspiring.
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83Crude is so crammed with facts and figures that it can be a little dizzying, but what's more important is what Berlinger records between all the talking-head interviews and vérité footage.
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Minor flaws and all, Crude represents a crucial document as much as any evidence put forward in the courtroom itself.
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80Corporate inhumanity Berlinger ferociously exposes.
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80For what Crude does best is take us behind the scenes and show in often candid detail how campaigns are waged, tactics decided on and strategies prioritized.
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80Picture makes an engrossing case for justice.
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78Crude's moving testimony and careful documentation make it hard to turn away from this issue. It will certainly remain in your mind the next time you stop for gas.
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75No film could convey all the complexities of the case - what Crude does is air the plaintiffs' claims and show the lawyers at work.
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75So, yes, something needs to be done, and if it takes Sting reuniting the Police in-concert to sing "sending out an SOS'' on behalf of the plaintiffs (among other worthy causes), so be it.
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75What makes Crude worthy of the overused term "epic" is the way the case symbolizes a host of contemporary issues: the iron-fistedness of multinational corporations; environmental despoliation; the disappearance of indigenous cultures; and the power of celebrity and the media to influence justice.
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75Part eco-doc, part legal-doc, it is a troubling, real story -- and a well-told one at that -- that is inspiring and infuriating all at once.
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Crude is only a progress report of a case that might last until well into the decade, the sordid details of which are still, pardon the pun, spilling out.
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60Not exactly genre-bending innovation or anything but a decent documentary about an important episode in history of oil company exploitation.
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60Berlinger is fully invested here, but a little distance might have helped.
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60Here's what's depressing: that, given the millions spent on defense by multinational conglomerates, our last best hope isn't the courts but the fickle attentions of glossy magazines and the noblesse oblige of celebrities.
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25Like its subject, a lawsuit that is expected to go on for another 10 years, Crude has no ending. This is the perfect ending for this Goliath versus Goliath documentary about powerful personal-injury lawyers taking on a powerful corporation.
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