The movie's dramatic devices are schematic, but in the end there's something strangely moving about Battle in Seattle.

| Dec 27, 2017

... a conventional drama about the unconventional protest landmark: the 1999 WTO protests in Seattle, Washington, a real event explored through the familiar fictional stories of various protesters, delegates and bystanders.

| Nov 18, 2016

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 17, 2011

This thriller will inspire any leftie cells you might possess to stand up and cheer.

| Jul 29, 2011

Battle in Seattle is a childish, ineffectively manipulative piece of self-serious agitprop about the four-day World Trade Organization meetings in 1999.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Aug 30, 2009

Approaching its subject with a neat idealism and packaging its political fervor in the most facile of forms, the film boasts a cast loaded with Hollywoods both new and old and wraps its message up with eye-rolling naivete.

| Aug 8, 2009

Perhaps I should just scrawl it on a placard: Battle in Seattle is an indie that deserves to stand out.

| Original Score: A- | Feb 11, 2009

Actor-turned-filmmaker Stuart Townsend would have been better off keeping things on a more modest scale. There are just too many characters here.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Dec 4, 2008

This is a powerful, wrenching and impressive writing and directing debut for the talented actor, definitely now a triple showbiz threat.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 20, 2008

It sheds much needed light on a mostly forgotten event in our country's history.

| Nov 6, 2008

What I think the movie failed to do was the thing it had to do most, which was explain what is the WTO and why in Stuart Townshend's opinion, is it bad.

Full Review | Nov 6, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 18, 2008

| Original Score: B | Oct 18, 2008

Townsend's efforts to be honest to the spirit of the event carry the film through its sloganeering and familiar backstage dramas.

| Original Score: B- | Oct 18, 2008

If current events hold, Battle in Seattle could look like prophecy as well as history.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 17, 2008

The issue deserves a better sounding board than this.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 17, 2008

There is a monster in Battle in Seattle, but it never speaks and remains mysterious.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 17, 2008

Very ambitious, the story constantly jumps back and forth, trying to give both sides of the story. I'll say it's mostly successful.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 8, 2008