Fun premise, good actors, bad writing. This film seemed to have potential at the beginning but it quickly devolves into a trite action film. Ultimately it's very boring.

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

It's a feast for the eyes. But what really makes this dramedy work is the acting.

Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable

The positives: It has a lot of great filming. Beautiful shots of various nature scenes all over the planet, even when they don't apply to the movie. The music chimes in and was well chosen to initiate certain feelings. It was a well done docudrama with the standard scare tactics and it's clearly all Hollywood made.The negatives: It's limiting on facts. It would briefly touch on something, then move on to some "touching story". It strives hard to appeal to emotions, while avoiding any hard facts and statistics. Like all global warming scare tactic films it avoids touching on solutions. While it says we can do something, the example given is a $200,000 home. It neglects to mention that even if all 6.7 billion people on the planet have those homes the global warming rate would actually increase.I would suggest you skip this movie and actually read some scientific studies. This was a Hollywood movie, and a lot of science was left out.

Although I'm far from backing up my ideals with all my actions, I am pretty much in the choir when it comes to this eco-message-documentary fronted by film-star Leonardo DiCaprio because I am liberal, make an effort to recycle and have the good taste to worry about my resource use (I know how that sounds but at least I'm honest). So for me it is not an issue to review the film without it turning into me taking issue with the overall message of the film. If anything I risk the other trap that many have fallen into – which is to review the message and not the film. So let me just get that trap out the way by saying that the message, in my opinion, is worthy and important and I have no doubt that all those involved in this film felt this and were keen to get it made and out to as big an audience as possible.Reviewing the film is a different thing altogether though because while the aim may have been to get the message out there and push this agenda, the actual film itself does the opposite due to the way it is delivered. The structure, content and style of the film is flawed across the board and it did put me off – leading me to wonder how someone who was sceptical to begin with would cope with the flaws in it as a film. Where The Inconvenient Truth builds its case and took the viewer along with it, 11th Hour just jumps right in and never stops hitting the viewer with information. Nothing wrong with that in concept but when it is done in a poorly structured and fast-paced way it does rather feel like you are being preached at by a hell-fire reverend rather than talked to or even lectured (in the academic sense of the word). The visuals don't help partly because they are just frantic and unnecessary at times but also because they clash with the much more sedentary talking heads that fill the vast majority of the running time. The end result is the feeling that the film is just trying to bully you into submission rather than carefully taking you down a path where even some sceptics will be conceding points.There is plenty of good stuff in here and those that are already won over may not even feel the flaws in delivery as they nod their heads in agreement. However, while I can agree on the importance of the message and the aims of the makers, good intentions alone do not make for a good film and here the delivery is consistently weak in a couple of key areas to the detriment of the film. A shame but this is one for the choir and even then it needs a chunk of good will to ignore the film and concentrate solely on the message.

The best thing about this film was the fact that it did not focus on the Earth's destruction, but on man's eventual demise as a species. The earth with survive our rape and plunder. It has been here for 4.5 billion years, while we have been here but 150,000. We will eventually join the 99.999% of the species that have lived on this planet and who are now extinct. How quickly we join them is up to us, but we will eventually go the way of the dinosaur.Through our heavy consumption and trash creation, we are rapidly stripping all of the resources from the Earth and polluting what we don't consume. Soon, we will be faced with the inevitable - it's all gone. If you haven't seen "A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash," then it should be on your list as a "must see." Along with "An Inconvenient Truth," this film tells us what will happen if we stay the course.The only fault I found in the film was the rapidity with which it presented information. This stuff needs to be digested slowly, and we got it rapid fire. Still, it is an important addition to the story of humankind and how we are planning our own destruction.

I'd like to know why this phrase is taboo to so many Americans. It shames me that as one of the world's richest nations, we are so complacent that many insist this is "liberal propaganda" instead of actually considering doing something radical, like recycling most of what we use, buying glass instead of plastic & using insulation in place of extra energy for heating.One caveat for viewers: do not expect it to be entertaining. This is not a movie; it's a documentary. Given the many people who bashed it, I expected it to be an extremist's view of environmentalism. To the contrary, it's educational, informative & not at all alarmist. Real, workable solutions to some of the issues we face are offered. Of course, these solutions require action on the part of individuals. Perhaps that is why so many people bash this film. They'd rather insist that it's alarmist than actually make an effort to change wasteful habits.I am proud to be an environmentalist. As a clergywoman who firmly believes that as part of the Judeo-Christian religious system it is my theological obligation to act in harmony with the natural world, I am proud to add this documentary to my increasing collection of sources on environmental ethics. I highly recommend it and its companion website as good resource material for anyone hoping to start that shift in their behavior. And bear in mind - you may be only an individual, but when your effort is added to the thousands of others who have already made the change, you WILL see a difference.