SnoopyStyle Leonardo DiCaprio narrates a documentary about the human destruction of the global environment. It looks at the entire history of human exploitation of the world's resources, its devastating effects and possible solutions. It concentrates on global warming with a large scattering of every scary environmental fears.There are way too many talking heads. Some faces are recognizable but most of them are unknown environmental scientists or writers. The scope of the movie is so vast that it becomes a laundry list of everything. For environmentalists, this is preaching to the choir. For opponents, this is a slick propaganda throwing everything into the stew presented by Hollywood. For those in between, it doesn't really convince but it summarizes. This is a repeat of 'An Inconvenient Truth' and then piles on everything else. There is just more stuff. I don't see this as anything new or convincing anybody not already convinced. There are so many issues being touched on that I think most independent viewers would throw up their hands and give up long before the end.

fwomp THE 11TH HOUR is a cautionary and doomsday documentary with a powerful line-up of intelligent men and women speaking to the destruction we as humans are doing to our planet Earth. Hosted by film star Leonardo DiCaprio (THE DEPARTED) and with a stunning array of cross-cultural people backing up claims surrounding the terrible price of the human footprint on the globe (from Stephen Hawking to Michel Gorbachev and David Suzuki), the stories of woe and gloom will most likely make your hair stand on end.Before we get into the meat and potatoes of this documentary, let me say that I believe in human causes for global warming. And that we have polluted — and continue to pollute — this pale blue dot that we call home. Governmental apathy and greed have played a huge role within this problem, but so has the greed of your average Joe with a 401k (ever look at where your money is invested? Which stocks? Is Chevron or Mobil or Shell in there?).The 11th Hour lays out a great set of problems facing us as a planet, not as individual nations. But what it failed horribly on is showing us those that don't believe what is being said by the ecological community. Yes, they probably are backed by Big Oil. Yes, they probably aren't looking at the scientific data and only the emotions behind them. But I still would've liked to have seen SOMEONE (anyone) with a dissenting opinion so that the documentary had a better balance to it. I've complained about this before, and I don't think it is beneficial to those with a genuine concern for the planet to simply eliminate opposition. I say take them on! So what if they have more money than you. So what if they can bend the ear of every Senator and Congressman in Washington. Let's see their faces and let us know who they are. Those DVD watchers with even half an intellect will be able to sort through the details and understand what is being done and by whom. Don't fear the opposition. Use them to your advantage. Show how weak their arguments are and put them into the debate.That being said, the study of Earth's problems (from globalization to the destruction of species and habitat) is a hoary one. The advancing issues aren't going to go away as we use more fossil fuels, pump out more babies (no population controls), and desire more "things" that we feel will make us somehow better than the Joneses ...until nothing of humanity remains.

rygraves9 The message is there in this film but the idea given is simply unattainable. The scientists and important figures featured are appalled at how destructive we are as a society. Thing is we ARE a destructive society we use manipulation and intimidation along with power and strength to control what we feel is rightfully ours. Not all of society is like this way but a majority of it is and what the interviewees fail to realize is that, that will never change. Only a small few will take on the challenge of global destruction put forth by humans in an attempt to reverse the damaging effects but attempts to conquer it will be thwarted by the ruthlessness of man.The issues arisen in the film are indeed relevant but have already been assessed as a major impact on the part of change and therefore makes this film seem dated.Imagery and narration are beautiful but the film lacks a realistic approach to a solution that is inevitable.

anthony-burton I honestly believe this film should be compulsory viewing for everyone. It eloquently collects mankind's misdeeds with the use of stunning visuals, frank interviews with scientific, political and economic experts to offer a very sobering thought. It's not the world we're fighting to save, it's our species.Those who advocate doing nothing, and dismiss this as hippie-propaganda (of which there are many) would do well to read Darwin's theory of evolution and learn to understand natural selection. If you don't adapt, you don't survive.I have never understood people's utter disregard for our planet's wellbeing. I have studied science my whole life, always recycled and conserved energy. Because i've understood the earth's resources are finite, and our dependency on oil and gas which this planet has taken millions of years to accumulate and 'process' are going to run out very soon. I felt this film did an excellent job of explaining this in particular.Dispute our effect on the temperature of our planet all you like, but the way we live is going to change massively over the next 100 years. And the way we are going, we'd do well to survive at all at this rate. I hope this film affects people as much as it did me. I hope it makes a difference before it's too late.Mankinds model of endless consumption is fatally flawed, but changing this economic-centric system is possibly the greatest challenge we will ever face as a species.If this film doesn't make people sit up and pay attention, we deserve all we get.