Michael Ledo The film is based on a true story that I believe most of us know the outcome. The first 10 minutes of the film show us the miners as a community, with gold mining the best gig in town. We get to meet a half dozen or so personalities before the ominous music plays and the film is divided into a surface and subsurface subplots. Antonio Banderas plays "Super Mario" the appointed leader who kept the group together and from killing each other, at least in the film version. Lou Diamond Phillips finally lands himself a respectable role as a safety engineer whose role is defined as making sure they get 250 tons of ore out a day.The film goes through the emotional high and lows as despair sets in Camp Hope, a tent community of the families outside of the fence. The film portrays the mining company as bad and the government as heroes whose hand is forced by public opinion. The film was made in English although there are newscasts and songs in Spanish.The film is over 2 hours long as we experience all the failed attempts at rescue. The end of the film shows us the actual miners, and to be honest, none of them looked like Antonio Banderas. The film is a drama. Don't expect an action flick.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

wplatt-73340 The 33 is a film based on a true story, where 33 Chilean miners get trapped underground in the San Jose mine for 69 days. The film shows the hardships the miners had to go through in the mine, as well as what people on the surface did to try to get them out. The film was a good film overall that did a good job showing the history behind the story of the miners, and it did a good job being entertaining and keeping the viewer hooked throughout the film. The director of the film is Patricia Riggen, who has made a few movies before, but nothing really historically based like The 33. This makes her somewhat not qualified to make a movie like this. The budget of the film was about 26 million dollars, which is quite a lot of money for a movie like this. The movie was released in 2015 and made 24.9 million dollars at the box office. More than half of the filming was done in the salt mine of Nemocón, Colombia, and rescue scenes were being filmed in Tierra Amarilla, Chile, so it has a very accurate portrayal of the mine, since it was filmed in an actual mine. The director most likely wanted to make the film to tell the story of the 33 Chilean miners, and the efforts to try to get them out of the mine they were trapped in. The film seemed like it was made for anyone looking for a dramatic movie to watch, not just Chilean people, so it was made to appeal to the masses.The film was very historically accurate. The only type of inaccuracy was the light shining through into the refuge when the first drill poked through. This would not happen considering they are hundreds of feet underground, and the drill is even blocking the hole it went through. Other than that, the director does not seem to have any bias, so it does not get in the way of the film as a whole.The film was very educational, but it was not boring. It is a very good tool to teach people what happened to the miners, and the characters seem to be very close to what they were like in real life. If I were directing this film, I would have tried to do more to make the audience feel how long the miners were in the mine for, because to the watcher, the fast paced sequences outside the mine takes away from the 69 day length of time.

austinrotella The 33 Film Review The 33 was one of the better movies based off true stories that i have seen this year. The story of the 33 is one of perseverance, hope and sheer will. 33 miners became trapped in a mine over 700 meters below the ground. There is little hope that they will be rescued, because no miners trapped in a collapse have ever been saved. However, a new minister hears of the collapse and will not stand idle by as they die. He travels to the site of the collapse and demands that they attempt to rescue the miners, as well as offer all the resources the government can supply. This leads to the miners finally being rescued after almost 70 days.The director, Patricia Riggen, does a very good job of illustrating what happened to those 33 miners as they were trapped. Riggen as a director has been all over the place with the types of movies she's directed. She has went from romances to teen drama comedies. Then she made this intense very emotional and action feeling film. Despite the limited experience in this style of film, the quality did not suffer. The budget for this film was $26 million and it shows. Real equipment and sets that look real because the were added to the realism of the movie. Most of the scenes in the mine were filmed in a mine in colombia. The rest of the other scenes were actually filmed in chile.The film obviously was targeted at a specific group of people. The mining industry was made out to look negative in the movie, by letting the miners work in unsafe conditions and risk being trapped or killed.this is the second recent movie that targeted large companies for putting their workers in danger. This makes it quite obvious that the director and people involved in the movie were not fond of the greedy owners of mining companies. Especially the ones that put their workers in direct danger because of the risk of losing money. This film in my opinion was very accurate in the information used for the film, because of the facts that the miners the movie is based off of are still alive, this gave the filmmakers a very reliable source. Some scenes are dramatized or fabricated to add to the intensity, but overall the realism in this movie remains unencumbered. All in all this movie was exciting to watch while also being very informative and sends out the message that the filmmakers wanted to convey. The director never got too extravagant with the special effects and also still made it fun to watch. I would highly recommend this movie to anyone interested and a good, informative film.

olussier-55204 Looking for any good movies to watch? Well, you are in luck! The movie, The 33, directed by Patricia Riggen, is based on a historical event. The movie is based in Chile and thirtythree miners were trapped in a gold mine for sixtynine days. The movie is overall a good film and shows history through an effective way.The filmmaking process of this movie began in December 2013 in Columbia. To make sure, Riggen got all the history correct, she interviewed each of the miners and their families. The filming was wrapped up on February 20, 2014. The major actors were Antonio Banderas who played "Super" Mario Sepúlveda, Rodrigo Santoro who played Laurence Golborne, Juliette Binoche played the strong female role, Gabriel Byrne's role was the engineer who rescued all thirtythree miners, and Chile's president was Sebastian Pinera. Patricia Riggen created many films such as Lemonade Mouth (2011), Perfect Target (1997), and Under the Same Moon (2007). The movie budget was 26 million USD. This film was filmed in Columbia, Copiapo, Chile, and Tierra Amarilla, Chile. The director, Patricia Riggen, says that she directed this movie because she wanted to challenge herself. She also said that she wanted to discover what the movie was really about. The reasons for this film are explicitly stated. It was a very easy film to follow and it kept the viewer's attention. This movie was created for the thirty three miners that survived the collapse of the mine; the movie made the survivors feel appreciated and loved.One of the movie's historical error was when the drill bar first came through, they spray painted it red and taped a letter to it. The history states that they wrote a note with red letters saying that everyone was alive. There were only small historical errors in the film. The director omits the important topics. Some of those important topics were the first time the drill came through, the plan to rescue the miners, and the execution of the rescue. The film did not seem biased. Overall, this movie was great! The actors were good and there was a lot of information given from watching. The characters are believable, everything looks real. The dialogue is appropriate for the time period, they had ipods, facetiming abilities, etc. Even though the film was realistic, there was a few scenes it seemed unrealistic. For example, when the drill came through for the first time there was light coming through. I would definitely recommend seeing this historical film.