Michael Ledo The film is based on a true story that I believe most of us know the outcome. The first 10 minutes of the film show us the miners as a community, with gold mining the best gig in town. We get to meet a half dozen or so personalities before the ominous music plays and the film is divided into a surface and subsurface subplots. Antonio Banderas plays "Super Mario" the appointed leader who kept the group together and from killing each other, at least in the film version. Lou Diamond Phillips finally lands himself a respectable role as a safety engineer whose role is defined as making sure they get 250 tons of ore out a day.The film goes through the emotional high and lows as despair sets in Camp Hope, a tent community of the families outside of the fence. The film portrays the mining company as bad and the government as heroes whose hand is forced by public opinion. The film was made in English although there are newscasts and songs in Spanish.The film is over 2 hours long as we experience all the failed attempts at rescue. The end of the film shows us the actual miners, and to be honest, none of them looked like Antonio Banderas. The film is a drama. Don't expect an action flick.Guide: No swearing, sex, or nudity.

jvalenti-20592 We all remember 7 years ago when The Miners in the San Jose mine were trapped? Do you remember how they got out of there? This movie The 33 has a great way of showing of what happened in all 69 days the 33 miners were trapped in the mine. The movie budget for the 33 was $26 billion. It was lower than most Hollywood movies but it managed to do a good job telling a story. The editing and acting is good. This story was meant for the people who like history and meant to teal the story of the 33 miners who got trapped. The director also wrote other movies like Under the Same moon which is about a young Mexican boy traveling to the U.S after his grandmother died. This movie did have some goofs and errors. They also did not show what really happened at the end. Before they got rescued they sent Navy Seals in order to check on the men's health and conditions and securing the miners in the capsule. They also did not show the miners wearing safety goggles which was for protection against UV. The miners had to wear them while they were in the mine. The Navy Seals where one of the most important things at the end. In conclusion, the characters were believable. Mario Sepullveda was the character who kept the group together and gave the group hope. Lou Diamond Phillips was the character who was concerned about the mines safety and was shot down by the manager. The family's reaction were also believable because they were concerned about the miners. I like the movie but in my opinion i think they should of showed the navy seals at the end.

Ashley Kenney The film The 33 is based of a true story, directed by Patricia Riggen. The film is about 33 miners getting trapped after the mountain clasps on the workers and the efforts to rescue them. The 33 was created to provide a better understanding of what happened the the miners and what they went through during their time underground. Also, it is told from the miners views. Important people in the film are Mario Sepúlveda played by Antonio Banderas, Laurence Goldborne played by Rodrigo Santoro, Alex Vega played Mario Casas, Luis Urzua played by Lou Diamond Phillips, Darío Segovia played by Juan Pablo Rada, Andre Sougarret played by Gabriel Byrne, Edison Peña played by Jacob Vargas, and Yonni Barrios played by Oscar Nunez. Two out of the nine movies Patricia Riggen created were for a historical purpose where the other seven were created for entertainment purposes. The movie was filmed in the salt mine of Colombia, and in Tierra Amailla, Chile. The movie was created in 2014, with a budget of 26 million dollars. But it was not released until 2015. The 33 was created to share with the world what happened to these men and how everyone helped to save them. This film was created for a variety of people because they want others to know their story. The viewer doesn't have to dig to find an underlying meaning to the film. There are no factual or historical errors in the film. Patricia Riggen doesn't omit or ignore important topics. She interviewed all 33 miners before making the film. The film is not biased and the way the story is told is not biased. The characters in the film are believable, the dialogue seems appropriate for the time and setting of the film.

Jake Griffin The 33 movie review The film "The 33" is about the 33 miners that got trapped in a Chilean mine and how two men never stopped believing that they could be rescued. It's crazy to think that those miners were trapped in that mine for sixty nine days. Yes, sixty nine days. Its incredible true story. Its also a pretty good film as well. The director of this movie is Patricia Riggen. The budget for this movie was $26 million and the box office ended up being almost $25 million. It was released on November 9th, 2015. Its DVD release was February 16th, 2016. Patricia Riggen flew out to meet the actual miners before this movie was filmed and just spent a lot of time with them hearing all their stories. They shot this film in two real mines both located in Columbia. She convinced the actual miners to come at the end of the movie to have a big dinner on the beach and to show the audience what the real miners looked like and that they actually all survived. This movie is actually pretty historically correct. Not a lot wrong with it at all. I think the director did a solid job of touching up on most of the topics regarding the Chilean mine incident. It didn't seem to biased by any means. Regardless of if their is any biased thoughts in this film or not, it doesn't affect how Patricia Riggen tells the story. The characters bare based on real people so i'm just going to say that yes they are believable. Dialogue and other things surrounding the film seem realistic and nothing really seems off. The only real thing I don't like is that they call this a action drama biography. I don't really see how its considered action to be honest. Like when I think of action I think of stuff exploding and crazy fights and stuff like that. Overall, i enjoyed this film which i didn't think I was going to. I would give it 6 stars out of ten.