Review Snowden (2016)

[Elliot Thomas]

I've seen conflicting reviews on this. Has Oliver Stone lost his mojo? Some said it's very vanilla for a Stone pic, but Levitt is watchable is everything he does.

 

[skribb]

You should change the tag. The review tag is for reviews, not just asking about reviews?

 

[Doctor Omega]

Snowden is a 2016 American-German biographical political thriller film directed by Oliver Stone and written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald, based on the books The Snowden Files by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.

The cast includes Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the title character, Edward Snowden, with Shailene Woodley, Melissa Leo, Zachary Quinto, Tom Wilkinson, Scott Eastwood, Logan Marshall-Green, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schnetzer, LaKeith Lee Stanfield, Rhys Ifans and Nicolas Cage also starring. Filming began on February 16, 2015 in Munich, Germany.

Snowden screened at Comic-Con on July 21, 2016, before premiering at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival on September 9, 2016.

The film was theatrically released in the United States on September 16, 2016, by Open Road Films and on September 22 in Germany.

It received mixed reviews and was a box office disappointment, grossing $37.3 million worldwide against its $40 million budget.


Cast

• Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Edward Snowden
  • Edward Snowden also briefly portrays himself in a cameo
• Shailene Woodley as Lindsay Mills
• Melissa Leo as Laura Poitras
• Zachary Quinto as Glenn Greenwald
• Tom Wilkinson as Ewen MacAskill
• Scott Eastwood as Trevor James
• Logan Marshall-Green as Male Drone Pilot
• Timothy Olyphant as CIA Agent Geneva
• Ben Schnetzer as Gabriel Sol
• LaKeith Lee Stanfield as Patrick Haynes
• Rhys Ifans as Corbin O’Brian
• Nicolas Cage as Hank Forrester
• Joely Richardson as Janine Gibson
• Robert Firth as Dr. Stillwell