LouHomey From my favorite movies..

Konterr Brilliant and touching

Fairaher The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

Jonah Abbott There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

samuelrein 10 years later this movie's theme is no longer an inconvenient truth but has become a politically correct celebration of the Al Gore political character and achievements. I find this documentary to be lacking ambition in terms of ecological activism. The new challenge is no longer carbon emissions as this has now been widely accepted but rather how can we make a difference on an individual basis and this is precisely where Al Gore fails to deliver. He only talks a few seconds about the elephant in the house, the real inconvenient truth most don't want to hear about which is the impact of animal agriculture and how our dietary habits impact the environment. If you look for something that will really teach you how to make a difference for the planet move on to cowspiracy and what the health. Looking at this documentary and Al Gore's speeches I couldn't help wondering what kind of eating habits this slightly overweight man has and could it be that he doesn't want to be too inconvenient after all? Nevertheless I recognize that when the first documentary came out it created a much needed shift in our understanding and willingness to move on the topic of climate change and carbon's emissions. It feels like Al Gore's generation has taken it as far as they could or were willing to go and the new pressing challenges are to be taken up by the next generations. I guess learning to live as a specie without destroying the planet is a journey and those who aren't ready to consider the full picture need to start somewhere and for then Al Gore's documentary is a good starting point.

dennisfastenaekels I was very excited to see this film and able to do so I first watched again an incovenient truth. And so I was very amused by how Al Gore has brought this interesting phenomenon of global warming. Al Gore great speaking capacities are well shown here and I liked that, so I was expecting more of this in the next chapter. But what was so exciting about the first film lacked in the second. The positive side of the second movie was that still Al Gore's capactity as a great public speaker is shown, the sequel lacks new information about the development of global warming more then ten years after the first episode. I do like some extra info and some stuff side stories about his personal life, but I think in this second part they lost the magic that was present in the first film. I would rate the first one surely an 8 however this second part was worse, it seemed like a flaw copy of the first one, a shame as many had high expectations especially when the first movie was great. So by these means I unfortunately have to give this sequel a poor 5 a 5,5. A bit of a shame, I hope maybe a third one could make it all better, maybe for 2022? I hope Gore is still alive then and could make us forget this second episode. I like Gore and he can still be in a next one, but it needs more excitement and a fresh way how to bring the aspect of global warming, as still we "the people" are watching it with staring eyes...Good Luck All, we are waiting for a third one, more like the first episode. 2022 or 2025 would be a great date to release one last episode to make it complete...

durganesha Ok, that is wishful thinking...but what a beautiful thought! President Gore! Yes!!! You know, I saw the last movie and I took notice. It seemed like we had made strides in the direction of doing justice to our stewardship of this great planet. Tears came to my eyes when I saw we had reached an accord in Paris. What a moment! How India was helped to take care of Her people and our Planet too! Wow! And then comes the part where the U.S. has stepped out of this accord?! How could anybody look at this and be concerned how great a film it is? That is not the point. The message, and this documentary, has been made with clarity, accuracy, honesty...what else do people need to see? People, we must take this seriously! This is not about this movie, it is about our children having a beautiful home. This beautiful Earth, our home! So, if you fell asleep, please wake your bootie up!

Horst in Translation (filmreviews@web.de) "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" is an American 95-minute film from this year (2017) by Cohen and Shenk who have collaborated in the past too. The title here gives already away of course that this is the sequel (not really long-awaited I guess) to the Oscar-winning "An Inconvenient Truth" from about a decade earlier. The director of that one is also a producer here. The entire film basically focuses on for American Vice President Al Gore's fight against climate change. But his fighting in here is mostly about people convincing because even after so many years the biggest obstacle is that many people still deny the existence. I personally am not (really) one of the non-believers, but sadly I am at a point where I doubt that people still care about not destroying the planet for further generations. The Trump election says a lot to that regard and so does the US getting out of the Paris treaty. That should not say something negative about Gore's efforts though, it is very impressive what he does and how he sacrifices his time for the cause.The speeches by Gore feel a bit as if we are in the audience watching him live and this is definitely not a coincidence. So what can be done if Gore's words cannot change people's minds as honestly it is highly unlikely things will look any different with another decade passing? Maybe one reason is that climate change is never cited as a direct cause. For example you hear 100 people got killed by a flood, a hurricane or a tornado, but you don't read that 100 people died from global warming. There is no real connection to tragedy because it is such a creeping process and it is true that you mostly need time lapse photography to really get a visual impact of what is happening. But now I am talking about the problem per se and not really about the film anymore. All in all, it will probably not have the same awards success like the first film, but this by no means means it is a weak film. Quite the opposite actually as it deals with one of the most crucial issues of our times and this alone makes it a really important work. The fact that this documentary is contents-wise really 100% what I expected (and what you expect too if you have seen the first and at least vaguely know about the subject) is not a problem at all because it is still high quality. I definitely give it a thumbs-up and no doubt it is among the better, if not best, documentaries of the year. I hope it gets the Oscar nomination.