A different perspective than Citizenfour

Rating: 7/10 (16 October 2016)

Citizenfour is a great documentary, and says most of what needs to be said about the time Snowden spent in Hong Kong. This movie does not spend too much time on this, so it works more as a companion piece rather than a fictionalized remake.
But it is fictionalized, and while the general facts about Snowden's life and motivations seems true, it's obvious that the scenes going on the NSA headquarters are dramatized. I'm sure Stone had to do some guessing to figure out how it all works in top secret bases, but it also seems like he used the freedom to ad some excitement and Hollywood-moments. In a movie like this, that's to be expected. But the story of Snowden is so interesting that I'd like to know exactly what went down, despite some details maybe never seeing the light of day.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt captures Snowden brilliantly, especially his voice mannerisms. The movie ends in a way that would have been risky has Gordon-Levitt not been such a capable actor.