Such a wasted opportunity...

Rating: 4/10 (3 November 2016)

Now, if one puts together Oliver Stone and a subject like global cyber-surveillance the minimum you would expect is an explosive outcome, a rallying cry for civil liberties, a raging attack to the global powers. The potential offered by the combination was huge, hence my high expectations; I have regularly disagreed with Mr Stone's points of view but I always liked the intellectual challenge....instead what you get from Snowden is a glossy, soft, ordinary espionage thriller, with attached love story. The potential opportunity has been totally diluted and lost, it ends being neither informative nor entertaining, just a bland, conventional movie.