Battle in Seattle
Battle in Seattle is a 2007 political action film and the directorial debut of actor Stuart Townsend. It is based on the protest activity at the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999. The film premiered on May 22, 2008 at the Seattle International Film Festival.
The movie takes an indepth look at several fictional characters during those five days in 1999 as demonstrators protested the meeting of the WTO in Seattles streets. The movie portrays conflicts between the peaceful protesters and a minority committing property destruction whose actions were widely covered by the media. Although the protest began peacefully with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, police began teargassing the crowd after it refused to clear the streets and the situation escalated into a fullscale riot and a State of Emergency that pitted protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.The film received mixed reviews from critics, earning a 54 positive rating from numerous reviews on review aggregator site Rotten Tomatoes, as of January 2016update. The critical consensus was that the film, though Well intentioned and passionate, this docudrama about the 1999 WTO protests is heavier on politics than character development. New York Magazine called the film a triumph, while Chicago SunTimes film critic Roger Ebert gave the filmout ofstars and described it as not quite a documentary and not quite a drama, but interesting all the same and compared it to past political films like Medium Cool. According to EW.com, the film sounds like a bad TV movie a drama based on the protests that halted the 1999 World Trade Organization summit in Seattle. Yet Stuart Townsend recreates it all with stunning passion and skill. ........
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