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Power Trip
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Generally favorable reviews
Based on 13 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Directed by: Paul Devlin
Release Date:
Theatrical: December 12, 2003
DVD: September 26, 2006
Running Time: 86 minutes, Color
Origin: USA / Georgia
Language(s): English / Georgian (with English subtitles)
Summary
RATING: Not Rated
Starring Piers Lewis, Michael Scholey, and Dennis Bakke
In an environment of pervasive corruption, assassination, and street rioting, the story of chaotic post-Soviet transition is told through culture clash, electricity disconnections and blackouts. (Films Transit International)
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What The Critics Said
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Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt
Intelligent, revealing, and sometimes hilarious.
Read Full Review >The Hollywood Reporter Frank Scheck
Filmmaker Devlin details this complicated series of events with clarity, a sense of drama and more than a few touches of dark humor.
Read Full Review >Variety David Stratton
Made with deft evenhandedness, Paul Devlin's accomplished film plays almost like a fictional drama, containing suspense, comedy and some colorful characters.
Read Full Review >Village Voice Ward Harkavy
Like the best documentaries, this one raises questions instead of providing pat answers. If only Devlin had taken his intrepid reporting a few steps further.
Read Full Review >The New York Times Stephen Holden
A skillful assemblage of newsreel clips, cartoons ridiculing the American interlopers, television commercials and interviews with power officials and ordinary Georgians. It gives new and darker meaning to that comfy adage "We're all connected."
Read Full Review >Boston Globe Wesley Morris
Part Marxist social drama and part Michael Moore corporation-needling, with fed-up residents trying to outsmart the big, bad naive company to keep their lights on for free.
Read Full Review >San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann
Devlin tells his story without bias but with shards of gallows humor.
Read Full Review >New York Daily News Elizabeth Weitzman
To Devlin's great credit, he keeps us rapt throughout.
Read Full Review >New York Post V.A. Musetto
If the documentary has a star, it's pony-tailed AES exec Piers Lewis, who had the impossible job of getting Georgians to actually pay for their electricity.
Read Full Review >TV Guide Ken Fox
There's enough information packed into Paul Devlin's documentary about the woes besieging the former Soviet republic of Georgia for two movies.
Read Full Review >The Onion (A.V. Club) Scott Tobias
To its enormous credit, doesn't cast the conflict as cut-and-dried exploitation. It presents something altogether more complex--too complex, unfortunately, for an 85-minute documentary to elucidate perfectly.
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-Intelligencer Bill White
Despite its shortcomings as objective reporting, Power Trip offers a glimpse into a sputtering culture that, after decades of communist rule, has little chance of survival in the modern world.
Read Full Review >Washington Post Mark Jenkins
An instructive account of the perils of attempting to privatize decrepit public utilities in countries with stagnant economies.
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