The 11th Hour (2007)
Tree Media Group

Description

The 11th Hour is the last moment when change is possible. The film explores how we’ve arrived at this moment -- how we live, how we impact the earth’s ecosystems, and what we can do to change our course. Featuring ongoing dialogues of experts from all over the world, including former Soviet Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, renowned scientist Stephen Hawking, former head of the CIA R. James Woolsey and sustainable design experts William McDonough and Bruce Mau in addition to over 50 leading scientists, thinkers and leaders who discuss the most important issues that face our planet and people.

Collected reviews and ratings

8.8 TV Guide | Ken Fox

The 11th Hour is a terrifying vision of exactly what's in store if we don't pay greater attention to what we're doing to the planet in our blind rush toward "progress."
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8.5 DVD Verdict | Franck Tabouring

The 11th Hour is indeed a little long at times, but the combination of panoramic shots, illustrated graphs, and DiCaprio's narration comes in handy every time the interviews risk becoming too monotonous.
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8.0 Los Angeles Times | Kevin Crust,

Though it has its own hands-on celebrity producer-narrator, Leonardo DiCaprio, who acts more as a guide, posing questions and introducing segments, the film forges an authoritative voice through a collective of experts representing relevant fields.
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8.0 New York Times | Manohla Dargis

It is our astonishing capacity for hope that distinguishes “The 11th Hour” and that speaks so powerfully, in part because it is this all-too-human quality that may finally force us to fight the good fight against the damage we have done and continue to do.
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7.5 Reel | Gary Goldstein

While its over-reliance on prosaically shot talking heads and stock footage doesn't make for the most visually exciting piece, the participation of producer/environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio gives this solemn film a serious shot of star power.
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7.0 Variety | Justin Chang

This latest exercise in celebrity eco-activism lacks the personal touch that helped "An Inconvenient Truth" go green at the box office, but auds might warm to its layered insights and polished presentation.
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6.0 DVD Town | John J. Puccio

The film offers up its subject matter in too dry and too grim a manner, mostly talk, and talk of dire doom and gloom at that. The initiate might find Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" more compelling, and the true believer might need something more profound than "The 11th Hour" provides.
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5.0 Washington Post | Nelson Pressley

The picture almost beats its theme to death -- the first hour is enough -- but the imaginative designers dreaming up a cleaner future end this Cassandra cry on an upbeat note.
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4.0 Empire | Helen O'Hara

Sadly, it’s too scattershot to land its punches. Where Gore built his conclusions piece-by-piece, making his points harder to debunk, this is filled with sweeping statements.
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