Switch (2012)
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Fresh: 3 | Rotten: 3
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Energy is the foundation of modern life. Our transportation, global commerce, food and water, housing, medicine, communications and computing all depend on it. Yet energy is in a sweeping period of transition. Renewables are entering the landscape. Unconventional gas and oil are changing our ideas of supply. Opinions on nuclear are shifting. Carbon concerns may, or may not, affect global production and consumption. What does the future of energy really hold? Join energy visionary Dr. Scott
Sep 20, 2012 Limited
Arcos Pictures
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Perhaps "Switch's" greatest strength is in giving us enough information to try to come up with better questions of our own.
Top CriticExhaustive and exhausting, the new energy documentary "Switch" is so monotonous it makes "An Inconvenient Truth" look like "Armageddon."
A methodical, occasionally remedial survey of the energy crisis and its possible solutions, Switch fits a subject often treated polemically into a more benign, continuing education mold.
"Switch," a thorough and sober-minded documentary about the past, present and future of energy, is refreshingly free of hot air.
Switch educates in the manner of a made-for-classroom film... the approach is a little too "balanced" to please anyone on any side of the issue.
Possibly the driest and most balanced documentary on the current energy crisis.
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- Switch (2010) (DE)
- Switch (2010) (UK)
The film, directed by Harry Lynch (despite what the Rotten Tomatoes profile claims) attempts to clear the fog surrounding these issues, and give a balanced view on energy and what needs to be done.
Unfortunately, despite a likeable narrator in Dr Scott Tinker, this film just tried to convey too much, and doesn't do it with enough conviction, resulting in a 90 minute lecture that could leave the audience tired or bored if they had no interest in the subject matter.
There's nothing to hate about the film, but to complete it's aims, it needed to be better.