I saw "The 33", starring Antonio Banderas-The Expendables 3, Haywire; Lou Diamond Phillips-Longmire_tv, Young Guns; Cote de Pablo-NCIS_tv, The Jury_TV; Juliette Binoche-Godzilla_2014, The English Patient and James Brolin-The Goods:Live Hard, Sell Hard, Catch Me If You Can.
This is based on a true incident that happened in Chili in 2010 where 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days. Antonio and Lou play a couple of the miners who have to try to survive on about 3 days of food and water until they can be rescued. Cote plays the wife of one of the miners-she also gets to show off her singing skills-and Juliette plays the sister of another miner, both, along with many others, being concerned about the safety of their loved ones. James plays a Texas drilling expert that is called in to help assist in the rescue. The story is good in conveying the desperation in the miners as they run out of food and any hope of rescue. It is a real miracle that they could survive so long and at the end of the movie, you find out that the real miners were not even compensated by their jobs or the Chilean government. The actual miners are also shown at the end. FYI: The music is by James Horner, who died June 22, 2015 in a plane crash. If you don't recognize his name, you probably would know his work. He was involved in the music of Apollo 13, Braveheart, Titanic, Avatar and The Amazing Spider-Man, just to name a few. It's rated "PG-13" for disaster sequence and language and has a running time of 2 hours & 7 minutes. It is an interesting story but not one that I would buy on DVD-once was enough. It would be a good rental though.
This is based on a true incident that happened in Chili in 2010 where 33 miners were trapped underground for 69 days. Antonio and Lou play a couple of the miners who have to try to survive on about 3 days of food and water until they can be rescued. Cote plays the wife of one of the miners-she also gets to show off her singing skills-and Juliette plays the sister of another miner, both, along with many others, being concerned about the safety of their loved ones. James plays a Texas drilling expert that is called in to help assist in the rescue. The story is good in conveying the desperation in the miners as they run out of food and any hope of rescue. It is a real miracle that they could survive so long and at the end of the movie, you find out that the real miners were not even compensated by their jobs or the Chilean government. The actual miners are also shown at the end. FYI: The music is by James Horner, who died June 22, 2015 in a plane crash. If you don't recognize his name, you probably would know his work. He was involved in the music of Apollo 13, Braveheart, Titanic, Avatar and The Amazing Spider-Man, just to name a few. It's rated "PG-13" for disaster sequence and language and has a running time of 2 hours & 7 minutes. It is an interesting story but not one that I would buy on DVD-once was enough. It would be a good rental though.