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33, The

33, The

Biography, Drama, History

Based on the real-life event, when a gold and copper mine collapses, it traps 33 miners underground for 69 days.


The critical consensus

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.

***(*)(*)Eddie Harrison, The List, 25/01/2016

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.

**(*)(*)(*)Ian Freer, Empire Online, 26/01/2016

Antonio Banderas plays the trapped miners’ leader in a big-hearted, good-natured treatment of the rescue story that gripped the world.

***(*)(*)Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian, 28/01/2016

More thoughtful than the average disaster movie.

***(*)(*)Geoffrey MacNab, The Independent, 28/01/2016

A decent, absorbing film but it all felt more urgent and compelling when it was unfolding on a daily basis on the news.

***(*)(*)Allan Hunter, Daily Express, 29/01/2016

Cod Latino accents don’t help this lacklustre account of the 2010 rescue of 33 trapped Chilean miners.

**(*)(*)(*)Mark Kermode, The Observer, 31/01/2016

Where and when?

General release. Check local listings for show times.

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