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

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

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

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

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | 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

Most inspiring in its throwaway moments, the flick mistakenly thinks we give a damn about an irritating romance when it would be better served by facts, outrage, and complexity.

| Original Score: C | Sep 30, 2008

It's the next best thing to being there, in that it's likely to make shuddering viewers intensely glad that they weren't.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 26, 2008

It's easy to see why Townsend was attracted to this inherently dramatic situation, but the characters he's put on screen feel less like real people than like entities created to either make plot points or stand in for specific positions.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 26, 2008

One strength is Barry Ackroyd's handheld-camera work, which deftly tracks the action but still captures the disorientation of those engulfed by the mayhem.

| Sep 26, 2008

The chief culprits are Townsend's 온라인카지노추천-movie characterizations and a very muddled message.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 26, 2008

The result is not quite a documentary and not quite a drama, but interesting all the same.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2008

It sounds like a bad 온라인카지노추천 movie, yet Stuart Townsend, the veteran actor-turned-director re-creates it all with stunning passion and skill in Battle in Seattle.

| Original Score: A- | Sep 24, 2008

The characters in Battle in Seattle are often crudely drawn, and the able actors struggle with canned lines.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2008

Less notable is the soap-ish plot, which leans heavily on coincidence and melodrama.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 19, 2008

It's like a class play by the Students for a Democratic Society.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Sep 19, 2008

But a drama is only as convincing as its characters. The people awkwardly forced together in Battle in Seattle are rhetorical mouthpieces tied to the sketchy plotlines of a so-so Hollywood ensemble movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 19, 2008

Townsend smothers any sense of global immediacy by covering the action with a frayed patchwork of melodramatic coincidences,

| Sep 17, 2008

The drama gets heavy-handed at times, but the film is a triumph, thanks to a crack cast including Connie Nielson, stunning as a 온라인카지노추천 reporter who joins her subjects in protest.

| Sep 15, 2008

Fictionalized drama frustrates, rather than facilitates, understanding about the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Battle to Seattle.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 14, 2008

By not necessarily glorifying the activists while agreeing with their cause, writer-director Stuart Townsend creates a multilayered portrait of an eventful five days.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 24, 2008