Antonio Banderas plays the trapped miners’ leader in a enormous-hearted,genuine-natured treatment of the rescue story that gripped the worldSix years ago, the Chilean San José mining catastrophe left 33 men trapped underground; the whole world was gripped and the 93-year-old Hollywood actor Kirk Douglas remarked that he was reminded of his movie Ace in the Hole, and in which he played an unscrupulous reporter covering a similar situation,scheming to delay the rescue and spin the story out. In this enormous-hearted, genuine-natured movie treatment of “the 33” and their ordeal, and the media are not the villains. Neither are the politicians,not really. The substandard guys would appear to be the mine’s owners who neglected safety, but their iniquities are not dwelt on. This is a feelgood catastrophe movie. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com