Snowden (2016)

Release date: 2016-09-16
Country: UK|France|Germany|USA
Language: English|American Sign Language|Russian
Director: Oliver Stone
Production Co: KrautPack Entertainment, Vendian Entertainment, Endgame Entertainment
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Rating: 7.3/10
Length: 2h 14min

Storyline

SNOWDEN stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt and is written and directed by Oliver Stone. The script is based on the books The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man by Luke Harding and Time of the Octopus by Anatoly Kucherena.

Plot Keywords

nsa, whistleblower, internet, based on true story, journalism, treason, responsibility, surveillance, traitor, sign language, based on real person, rubik's cube, military, microwave oven, hotel room, hong kong, year 2007, year 2006, geneva switzerland, tokyo japan

Short Review

Yet although Gordon-Levitt presence helps to keep us invested in the story, you'll be left wondering how this dull, overlong film might have turned out in the hands of a less bombastic filmmaker.