Review of Countdown to Zero (2010) by Balazs G — 21 Jun 2011

I deliberately give only 3 stars (this is very 'low' for me). There are many repeated scenes which made me rather bored. BUT, much more importantly, its too much (or I might say 'only') focus on the potential terrorist attacks is just in danger of covering up the problem of nuclear power in the first place (including nuclear power plants).

To make matters worse, with respect to nuclear power plants, the organisation endorsing this film only said in the post-screening Q&A that the security of the plants needs to be strengthened (because they only worry about terrorist attacks).

Have they not heard about Fukushima!? Is it OK if the danger is not an immediate/instant one?? The distinction between dangerous nuclear weapons and 'safe' nuclear power plants is such an outdated idea.

Maybe it's too much for them to campaign for zero nuclear power plants in the US (Americans are often not as 'critical' as the British/Europeans), but nuclear power plants have been promoted precisely because it is allegedly considered to be emitting no CO2 (which is a lie) .

.. so the two issues are really difficult ones to deal with together, actually. Since this filmmaker produced An Inconvenient Truth too, and seems very proud of it, I can't help suspecting that they don't really want to commit themselves to tackling the problems seriously (well, I wasn't expecting much anyway).