Too much of everything

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

Oliver Stone is simply trying to tell a story about subject can't relate or understand. The beginning is directly from Citizenfour but with actors. The dramatization of training in the CIA is full of melodramatic monologues. When you don't understand something, you treat it as magic and Stone is doing just that. Stone don't understand what Snowden's world is and as a result he can't make the movie work. Oliver Stone was the director of the 80's and 90's Salvador, Platoon and Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, The Doors, JFK, Natural Born Killers were based on something he knew or could understand.Watch the documentary Citizenfour instead.

How Snowden came to be one of the important whistle-blowers of the world. After Manning, which revealed crimes the US military did, Snowden chose to flee and stay free. This film holds a neat and simplified narrative that explains the work and the revelations. The fact that the US has secrets courts to obtain permissions so that no one is aware is a huge trampling of freedom. Frankly, how can they expect us to believe in their democratie if the public is never informed of the actions of their government.

An useful film. more than good. because it reminds basic truths. becuse it is a precise portrait of contemporary world. and, not the last, because it represents a real happy meet between Oliver Stone and Joseph Gordon - Levitt. and , after its end credits, you discover than it is not a film about a specific man, traitor or patriot, but about yourself and a sacrifice changing, at first sigh, nothing but moving evident truths in the light. and the manner to say this story, who remains, step by scene, your story is convincing to impecable. because, against technical details, is the most simple story. about power, freedom and fears, lies and political power, hypocisi and ideals. so, a great movie.

"Snowden" is Director Oliver Stone utilizing a Restrained, Laid Back, Contemplative Template, that is Against-Type. Known for His Hyperbolic, In Your Face, Frenetic Visuals and Extreme Editing Techniques, Stone chooses a more Cerebral Approach to the Whistle-Blower and His Outing of the NSA Meta-Data-Surveillance. Edward Snowden Uncoveres the beginning of a "Dragnet on the whole world." The Film is Anchored by Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Smooth and In-Skin Performance while Surrounded by Responsibilities that are so Severe His Epilepsy Emerges as He is on a Trajectory that can't be Stopped.The Enormity of the Consequences of both Edward Snowden and the Governmental Agencies "Spying" on "Everyone" is what is at Stake in this "Real-Life" Story that Modernity has Yet to get a Handle.Snowden's Story is Now Well Known and the Director goes Deep in the Psyche of "Snowden" and His Personal Life as it Relates to the Stresses and Consequences of His Job as a Government Contractor, CIA and NSA Analyst.The Movie can be real Creepy at times, especially when He is with His Mentor Corbin (Rhys Ifans). It is a Suspenseful Film despite the Foregone Knowledge of Events. Oliver Stone, although He is in Unobtrusive Mode, makes much use of Camera Angles and Techniques that are Subtle but Impressive throughout the Film. It's Visceral Effect is Nowhere Near the Director's other well known Films and probably would have been Ill Advised Anyway. As it Stands it is a Compelling, Cohesive (despite the tech stuff) and Completely Satisfying, considering the Scope of the Subject and the United States Government/Citizens Implications of the Still Ongoing and Very Real Daily Headlines.