Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Megamind To all those who have watched it: I hope you enjoyed it as much as I do.

Merolliv I really wanted to like this movie. I feel terribly cynical trashing it, and that's why I'm giving it a middling 5. Actually, I'm giving it a 5 because there were some superb performances.

AshUnow This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

adonis98-743-186503 Activists arrive in Seattle, Washington en masse to protest a meeting of the World Trade Organization. Riots and chaos ensue as demonstrators successfully stop the WTO meetings. Starring an all star cast of talented people like Charlize Theron, Woody Harrelson and Ray Liotta. Battle in Seattle might be a propaganda or something that you could easily see on television but thanks to it's all star cast and moving story is a great film on it's own the only problem i had was with the character of Dale played by Harrelson his performance was good but there was like not too much emotion all this things happen in his life he should be affected more against the people responsible for all this instead someone innocent. The Battle Continues....

JodyKibler Some people on here say it was fictional characters used for legal reasons. That is B.S. They used fictional characters to make a fictional movie. They made it seem that a Officer's wife attacked by police was real. They made it look like the violence was committed by undercover police officer's. They made it look like an Officer can't call out sick. In all honesty an Officer can call out sick no matter what is happening. This film is shot completely as a pro activist standpoint, not a true standpoint. The shameful situation is some people are too dumb to realize this is a work of fiction. You should be ashamed.

robinakaaly This was a serious and intelligent, if incredibly depressing, film about the anti-WTO protests in Seattle in November 1999, and how they affected some of the participants, on all sides of the barriers. The film mixed archive footage of the massive demonstrations, with modern reconstruction around the various story lines: several professional protesters and their reactions to the violence they were unwittingly (but not unforeseeably) responsible for, the civic and police authorities confronted with overwhelmingly hostile demonstrators out to break the law, the policeman on the front line whose pregnant wife, inadvertently gets caught up in the riot, is beaten by a passing policeman and loses her baby, the professional demonstrator bent on wilfully damaging property, the camera crew who go from being neutral to siding with the protesters as the civic response gets tough. The start of the film portrays the WTO as being some shadow organisation devoted to making the rich richer and the poor poorer whilst raping the planet. As usual with protect movements, truth does not matter. The fact that the WTO is there to try and provide a framework for policing international trade, and what would the situation be like without it, are of no concern to the protesters: the WTO is bad and must be smashed. This is a self-evident truth, so ordinary people should get out of the way whilst those who "care" take the law into their own hands. When it comes to defeating what protesters do not like, the law does not come into it. The film also makes it clear that (a) the demonstrators have nothing positive to offer, and that as usual (b) they take no responsibility for the consequences of their actions. On this point, the protester's lawyer who should no better, has no realisation of what she is doing. Generally, all the people the film seeks sympathy for are the demonstrators, who by their own ignorance and irresponsible refusal to accept the democratic process, puts a heavy burden on those paying through taxes for their right to be stupid. To be fair, the response to the demonstrations was affected by political rather than practical considerations of crowd control leading to ugly confrontations and use of force, but this was not the fault of the police.This is the sort of film which should provoke debate, but sadly, from the evidence of the demonstrators, their only response is to shout slogans and cry foul as they have nothing else.Here endeth the lesson.

hendry-robert I had never heard of this movie until it came on the TV the other day. It would have been better if it had remained that way.You don't get real idea of what the protesters were protesting about. Very much like the real protesters who were a mish mash of anarchists, drop-outs, ravers/party goers, manic depressives, attention seekers, show offs, chancers, and total dreamers. None of whom have any idea of reality because they cannot use logical thought processes.Anyway, Charlize Theron spends most of the movie crying in bed ignoring her husband Woody Harrleson who plays one of the riot police officers. I had high hopes for Theron when I first saw her years ago but she sure knows how to pick bad scripts and I do think her career is suffering from it. Woody (like Theron) will have been drawn to the project because of his environmental background and on paper he must have thought it would be a good move to accept the role. He, and Theron are both lucky the movie didn't finish their careers off. Ray Liotta plays the Seattle Mayor. The Mayor seems like a decent trusting guy but is essentially betrayed by the protesters rampage. Liottas performance, as well as Theron and Harrleson were mediocre at best. I don't blame them though. Clearly the director has absolutely no idea how to coax a performance from actors and if I were to hedge a bet I would say the director was personally caught up (emotionally) due to his obvious political views. Nothing wrong with putting your case forward in a movie, but you have to do it right and provoke a reaction from the audience, make them think. This completely fails to do that. The man completely forgot he was making a movie and like most extreme leftists the idea is always better than the reality. As you watch you will care nothing for any of the characters in the movie. Your constantly hoping something will happen, it never does because quite frankly very little actually happened in Seattle over those few days. A few protesters running around smashing windows will not give anyone the ammunition to make a full 90 minute movie.Its quite telling that since the movies release two years ago it only has around 40 reviews on IMDb. Just goes to show that no one, not even the protesters give a damn about this movie. They are probably to embarrassed.The favourable reviews of which there are far to many can only be from a few dreamers and those with an agenda. But seriously, pay them no attention because this is a really bad movie no matter what side of the political spectrum you come from.Avoid at all costs.