Film Review – The 33

“The 33” certainly doesn’t have the element of surprise. A dramatization of the 2010 Chilean Mining Disaster that trapped workers underground for 69 grueling days, the production is working with a globally known event, including a happy ending that was omnipresent during a few news cycles five years ago. Even the theatrical trailer for the movie gives away the ending, making suspense all but an impossible for director Patricia Riggen to achieve. “The 33” is painfully overlong, but it’s also effective with the basics of survival, using moments of claustrophobia and familial divide smartly as it searches for anything to help distract from the highly publicized conclusion. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com