High ratings goes to Edward Snowden

Rating: 7/10 (4 December 2016)

I really think this movie should not have been made. Having been from a small country in Europe and not knowing much about Edward Snouden and all the shenanigans he pulled, I decided it was time for me to get to know the whole story. First I saw Snouden, and was amazed, and would give it a straight 9 right away, but then I dug in some research because the story really amazed me, and then found out about Citizenfour, which is the real documentary Laura Poitras filmed in the hotel room when he was uncovering the secrets to her and the journalists. And that movie absolutely blew my mind, so this one went from 9 to 7, and I think that 7 is still influenced by the fact that the movie is based on real events. If it were not, I'm sure it wouldn't have gone over 6. In giving a review for a scripted movie, one must ignore the fact that it is made on real events as much as possible, otherwise the rating are given to the real story, and not the made up parts, and not the acting, effects, music etc.
So this movie is basically just a remake of a documentary movie that went out not more than 2 years ago, which most of the people are not aware of, but with greater marketing budget, and I can understand in some part that they made it while the topic is still hot. Joseph- Gordon Levitt's performance was a masterpiece, although I'm pretty sure his voice in the movie is not his real voice, he sounds like Christian Bale in the Batman.