The Trick

Good film , but an important film to underline the importance of eeping our planet healthy and survivable in forthseeable times and generations. Its a testament of how a scientific nerd, where bullied by the powerful and rich that runs and values planet earth on a monetary scale, always wearing their gasmask in hiding in case co and co2 levels should reach intoxicating levels, and the athmosphgeric and surface level temperatures so high and water rise so wast due to ice caps in the antartic and greenland melts due to human activity climate change, a nerd that did when every scrutinizing attempt to make disbelief, showed that human made climate change is a true factor to take seriously by mankind.

Its a film that do the turtle race towards the sea, its as slow on the plot like the common governmental reaction to the subject of climate change, and in the end you are really not sure what this film really was about other than saving a life and a reputation. The acting is not outstanding, but the main caracters wife's role did step above the rest of the average. It might for some radical tree huggers feel as a thriller but for the average tv-viewer its close to channel shift on the remote control of the tv set.

Im a grumpy old man, that has over the past 25 years collected and studied loads of meteorologic parameters from my vantage pre 2 weather station(and weather wizard, maximum weather and a massive amount of other hobbymeteorologistinstruments, even a home made tide level measuring device) and it all tells me that the rise in average temperature and a small sea level rise at my geographical standpoint here in southwest norway is a true fact. If it is humancaused i shall not delve into, just conclude that im worried about where to live in 30 years, cause the fact is my house is placed by the seashore and the storm tides creeping up the brick wall becomes higher and more frequent, so im kind of worried yes.buying land at higher level can be a good idea but as ive aid already, im old.

I do however praise the works and the guts of the professor who were ultimately right in his conclusiveness, therefore a recommend to feel and view the forthcoming desperation for generations to come.

All the elements are there so this really comes down to bad direction. If the idea is to promote action on climate change, the producers and director have done nothing except muddle things with this mishmash convoluted story. I vaguely remember when the real story broke but didn't remember the details which may be why I didn't get this film. For more than 30 mins in I had no idea what the story was about because it was just a jumble of different scenes and characters and it just made no sense and most of it was not about the main character at all, just the peripheries of the story. The main character was relegated to 1 dimensional cartoon figure constantly crying and raising his hands to his head like "The Scream" but they used so much idiotic technobabble it was hard to understand exactly what he did to deserve persecution for most of the first third of the film. Too many scenes, too much melodrama, and too many cliches, and too little relation to the main character. The acting was great; but the story direction was awful. And of course at the end there's the speech where our hero gets vindicated. But, it's interesting on one point because it's a story about a supposed conspiracy to deceive that is blamed on another conspiracy against the conspiracy but in the end, the story is about nothing much at all. Well, that is, if there was some plot of importance, they lost it. (for the record, my comments are on the film, not the topic)

Ignore the ultra negative reviews. This was bound to bring out the climate change deniers , flat earthers, anti vax brigade et al. So nutters aside, this an interesting although very dry recount of a hack, that produced a global storm about a world wide scientific conspiracy to falsify the evidence for global warming. The acting is solid but the story is kind of delivered in a very uninteresting way. Its worth a watch but if you think what you read on Facebook is the same as a peer reviewed scientific paper its probably not for you.

It's a truly fascinating story, the outcomes of what happened could quite literally have changed how the world thinks and acts.

A somewhat strange choice of material for a drama, but it made a change from cop shows, and it was nice to only have to invest 90 minutes of time in a one off drama, and not the usual six weeks.

I found it a little slow, half baked perhaps the right term, it was well acted for sure, nicely produced, but I don't think they made full use of the material, until the last fifteen minutes or so.

The impacts could have been incalculable, they were hardly mentioned.

As mentioned though the acting was great, Watkins and Hamilton never disappoint.

Worth watching, but be aware it's not the usual pulse racing drama that's generally on, 7/10.

While this story has merit, there is peer reviewed work out there that shows the really widespread stalling of addressing anthropomorphic aspect of climate change is not outright denial. The social science surveys and analysis show that the resistance is coming from pitching climate change solution as massive "economic justice" and wealth transfer. This especially after the massively botched Doha conference where language used in presentations and final memorandum made wealth redistribution a core aspect. In other words the exploitation of this issue and problem by certain groups who controlled the megaphone and wished to create counterproductive massive tax schemes and international bureaucracy to administer "redistribution" are the real problem in stalling progress.

This is why carbon capture and sequestration, which everyone knows will be the core solution, gets fob off by equally anti-science people in the climate change adovacy business -- because it doesn't fit with creation of giant tax bureaucracy. MIT has hundreds of people now working in their carbon capture and sequestrations project. And the top engineering universities in China, Japan and Europe all have major carbon capture programs. So unless you are going to say MIT, Princeton, Harvard, CalTech and Stanford are ant-science, don't dismiss carbon capture as the main technology that will solve this.

Denial of carbon capture is something the climate groups that want to create tax and wealth redistribution are incessantly doing. Just google: +princeton, "americans are unaware of carbon capture and sequestration technology, according to a new study"