The Bad: Snowden (2016)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNOxOD-eyTo
One year after Poitras’ fascinating documentary about Snowden was released, Oliver Stone decided to dramatize the hacker’s story. I’m usually on board for Stone’s conspiratorial leftie movies, but he kinda shit the bed on this one. For one thing, Joe Gordon Levitt is a bad choice to play Snowden. He doesn’t look like him, and his impression of the whistleblower’s voice sounds less like the real guy and more like a vacuum cleaner with gravel caught in it. But the biggest issue might be the screenplay (written by Stone and Kieran Fitzgerald), which treats a really fascinating subject matter with rote biographical gestures that reveal nothing. The movie also lacks any real production value, and it’s boring.
