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Snowden (2016)

Director:
Oliver Stone
COUNTRY
USA/Germany
GENRE
Political/Thriller
NORWEGIAN TITLE
Snowden
RUNNING TIME
134 minutes
Producer:
Moritz Borman
Eric Kopeloff
Philip Schulz-Deyle
Fernando Sulichin
Screenwriter:
Kieran Fitzgerald
Oliver Stone


Cast includes:

CHARACTER ACTOR/ACTRESS RATING
Edward Snowden Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Lindsay Mills Shailene Woodley
Laura Poitras Melissa Leo
Glenn Greenwald Zachary Quinto
Ewen MacAskill Tom Wilkinson
Trevor James Scott Eastwood
Male Drone Pilot Logan Marshall-Green
CIA Agent Geneva Timothy Olyphant
Gabriel Sol Ben Schnetzer
Patrick Haynes LaKeith Lee Stanfield
Corbin O'Brian Rhys Ifans
Hank Forrester Nicolas Cage
Janine Gibson Joely Richardson

 

Review

Despite Edward Snowden's uniqueness, this biographical film from Oliver Stone has become somewhat characterless. Stone's direction is a bit too much about going through the motions; the once radical director who viewed things from his own perspective is nowhere to be seen here. That being said, the story is factual and treated with dignity, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt makes for a good Snowden, especially in the more dramatically challenging scenes.

Copyright © 2.3.2017 Fredrik Gunerius Fevang

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