Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.
Despite dramatic physical effects during the initial structural collapse, The 33 lacks the claustrophobia expected, playing out like a 70s disaster movie minus the narrative tension.
The astonishing true life story of The 33 deserves a better than movie than this. Trite above and below ground, it is not suitable for miners. Or anyone else really.
Antonio Banderas plays the trapped miners’ leader in a big-hearted, good-natured treatment of the rescue story that gripped the world.
More thoughtful than the average disaster movie.
A decent, absorbing film but it all felt more urgent and compelling when it was unfolding on a daily basis on the news.
Cod Latino accents don’t help this lacklustre account of the 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners.
General release. Check local listings for show times.