Prismark10 In The East Brit Marling plays Jane, a former FBI agent now working in the private security sector.Jane has been assigned to infiltrate an eco anarchist group called The East who expose corporate wrongdoing and are escalating their actions. They have given a pharmaceutical company a dose of their own medicine. A chemical company who is poisoning the local water supply, the group took their executives out for a swim.The East is an inconsistent drama, verging on tedious at times. The anarchists often descend into bizarre behaviour as shown in the eating scenes. You lose any empathy with them and they just come across as over privileged rich kids, some with daddy issues than people having any real solidarity with ordinary folks who are victims of corporate abuse.

Dennis Laursen The East seems to be a very interesting political thriller. But I was disappointed. The East is rather a boring and long-winded thriller. The plot progress quite slow, and there is not really a feeling of culmination for the group (The East) we are following. We are following a FBI agent, who is infiltrating this environment activist group, The East. And already in the beginning of the movie, we learn that the reason the female FBI-agent have to infiltrate the group, is quite stupid. She is not really a FBI-agent. More like, well, you will se in the movie...And the ending, well, it offers a quite dull plot-twist, and it is a quite a anti-climax.And of course we have to see the generic kiss-hug-and-sex-scenes for the I don't know gazillion time, which we have seen in numerous Hollywood-movies before. The only new here, is a couple of gay-kisses.

CleveMan66 The trailers for "The East" make it look like not much more than a revenge flick for the 99%, but it's much more (and much deeper) than that. The film shows a group of underground anarchists taking their revenge on people they see as corporate criminals, people who knowingly poison the masses with their medications and destroy the environment with their factories. But the main character is a young woman named Sarah, a kind of corporate cop who goes undercover to expose the group. When she figures out that one of the people she's been following is a member of The East, she cleverly exploits that relationship to infiltrate the group, but then has to work hard to gain the trust of the disparate outcasts who make up this modern day commune.Of course, this involves participating in The East's elaborate plans of revenge on corporate America. The East's schemes are dangerous - both for their targets and for themselves. Although they passionately believe in what they're doing, the members of the group have trouble dealing with the price they have to pay for their extreme activism. Sarah's eyes are opened too, in a variety of ways. To say that "The East" is left wing propaganda is not inaccurate, but it sells the film short.The film uses a creative story with a lot of tension to shed fresh light on the complicated world in which we live and challenges us to think about the best way to deal with our modern problems. Though stretching the limits of realism, this film is original enough to keep the audience engaged and deep enough to make them think. I give "The East" a B+.

Mr_Mirage Patricia Clarkson has a role so small in this film, but like a tiny piece of Uranium has a massive impact.Here she is the head of the main character's company, a firm that supplies intelligence for corporations, infiltrating underground groups that act out against companies.In the course of this film, there is a sequence in which our heroine is present when a "monkey wrench" (called a jam) of sorts is about to happen and a large number of people are about to be badly treated. She then calls Clarkson with concerns about the event about to take place mere minutes (like nearly seconds), Clarkson has a response that is the essence of corporate evil.In this one, brief line, Clarkson nails Corporate Swine Person as well as if not better than Gary Cole in Office Space or Paul Reiser in Aliens.Overall the film is well made, well directed and has Ellen Page in it. (Anything with Ellen Page is worth watching at least once IMHO.) A good gripping thriller, well made and with an edge. 9/10