The story about three radical environmentalists coming together to execute the most intense protest of their lives: the explosion of a hydroelectric dam.
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Absolutely brilliant
Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.
Seriously boring predictable tripe. A couple of spoiled brats decide they need to show everyone how right they are about environmentalism by destroying a bridge that doesn't belong to them. You get 20-30 minutes of watching these clowns convince a guy to sell them fertilizer without proper ID (yeah right), getting a boat and another accomplice and planning this hair brained scheme. Of course they end up killing someone and rather than getting tracked down we watch them go through what they want you to think is guilt (but really just trying to evade getting caught) and the ending is just really dumb and pointless. I could care less about any of these characters. Frankly all this demonstrated was how ridiculous everyone with these ideas are. They don't try to convince you with arguments and facts, just violence that ends up getting innocent people killed. Not to mention all the other business they disrupted just to have their temper tantrum. You'd think they'd at least want to get caught so they could get up on the pedestal and tell us their gripes.
To appreciate this film, you have to be prepared for the work of Kelly Reichart, whose films tend to be slow-moving and thought-provoking. You have to be in the mood for that type of experience. For this particular film you also have to be prepared for an emotional reaction to the story of several people who take political action, violent action, and suffer its human costs. Anyone who was young during the 1960's and 1970's will remember what it was like to debate those political issues. We all had to decide whether we were willing to take action in which someone might get hurt. Or in the jargon of Star Trek, does the life of one outweigh the life of many? It's a question we still grapple with today. If you are willing to confront those questions, and your own answers, this film will interest you. If you don't like to think about such things, skip this film and watch something more superficial.
I really like Kelly Reichardt's style. This is a slow burner of a thriller of pretty much the highest order, reminiscent of the '70s, when 'fast-paced' often took a backseat to 'tension building'. The ending is perfectly logical, perhaps even a little tóo obvious. Like that ending, the story holds no surprises - one might even call it clichéd... Bút! Reichardt knows how to create a perfect, endlessly atmospheric, almost claustrophobic, cinematic ride.I enjoyed the acting of all cast members, but was especially surprised by and smitten with Dakota Fanning's performance. I hope to be able to check out more of her in this 'genre' soon!9 out of 10.
(Spoilers). Sat down to watch this semi-dud, "Night Moves" is a plodder and tries to work as a psychological suspense movie. The problem though is there's little to no actual action, not to mention the dialog interest-level in the characters is poor. Perhaps worse than this is the glaring use of non-resolution in the end where we have nothing wrapped up, but even more questions than when the movie began. Some of the earlier scenes were decent leading up to the eco-terrorism, but passed that the last third of the movie dragged awfully. The acting was so-so as was the direction. The cinematography was satisfactory, and dialog OK but uneventful, and certainly not provocative. Not Recommended (5/10)