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- 2013
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- CNN Films
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- 2013
- Not Rated
- CNN Films
- 1 h 27 m
Summary A feature-length documentary about the history and future of nuclear power. The film explores how and why mankind's most feared and controversial technological discovery is now passionately embraced by many of those who once led the charge against it.
Directed By: Robert Stone
Written By: Robert Stone
- 2013
- Not Rated
- CNN Films
- 1 h 27 m
- 2013
- Not Rated
- CNN Films
- 1 h 27 m
Pandora's Promise
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7.8
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Summary A feature-length documentary about the history and future of nuclear power. The film explores how and why mankind's most feared and controversial technological discovery is now passionately embraced by many of those who once led the charge against it.
Directed By: Robert Stone
Written By: Robert Stone
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 15 Critic Reviews
54
40% Positive
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6 Reviews
60% Mixed
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9 Reviews
0% Negative
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[This] timely documentary is less persuasive about translating logic into political and economic reality.
An amazing argument no matter which side of the debate you favor, Stone’s film manages to restock and bring a fresh voice to an old controversy. The documentary is well-made and articulately argued, although that doesn't mean it isn't going to have as many adversaries as champions.
Robert Stone directed the wonderful environmental movement history documentary “Earth Days,” and that earns him the benefit of the doubt for his latest, Pandora’s Promise. He needs that benefit, because what he sets out to do in 87 minutes is upend 50 years of green movement anti-nuclear power dogma.
This film certainly chops up a few sacred cows. Could it be that the anti-wind brigade will have to make common cause with climate change scientists?
The film’s restricted scope of analysis and limited selection of sources threatens to undermine its conclusions.
Like so many campaigning doc-makers he’s much more interested in throwing darts at the other guys – the anti-nuclear brigade (who have better slogans: ‘Hell, no, we won't glow’) – than giving us a balanced film.
Why Stone also chooses to characterize those on his side as feeble-brained hippie protestors is a mystery, but in its attempts to debunk the feasibility of massive energy reduction, Pandora’s Promise at least brings some measure of rhetorical skill to its arguments.
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Production Company
Robert Stone Productions,
Vulcan Productions
Release Date Jun 12, 2013
Duration 1 h 27 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Tagline What if this cube could power your entire life.
Awards
Sheffield International Documentary Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
