An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017)

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	Year of first release: 2017
	Director: Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk
	Actors: Al Gore, George W. Bush, John Kerry
	Country: USA
	Genre: Documentary
	Conditions of visioning: 29.12.2017, in-flight entertainment system 10" screen
Synopsis: Ten years after the 2006 Academy Award winning Documentary An Inconvenient Truth, American ex-vice-president Al Gore is still fighting against global warming.
Review: It is true that I hadn't heard about Al Gore since I saw the famous Documentary. This "sequel" or "what have them become" has a sad tone to it like the main actor says himself, because the fight has been long and sometimes it seems like no progress is made (e.g. the blow taken when Trump was elected). But the documentary rather focuses on the predictions made 10 years ago and that came true (flooding of the 9/11 memorial site, repetitive forest fires...), giving credibility to the Global Warming theory (for those who still believe it's a myth) and weight to Al Gore's fight. Focus is also made on the positive impact made by the trainees who followed his course / presentation, and a good half of the movie resolves around the preparation of the COP21 conference in Paris, and the (maybe overrated) contribution Al Gore made there. So nothing revolutionary in that documentary, but many interesting facts like for example the Chilean increase in solar energy development in the past few years that is introduced in a way that parallels the forklift exercise Al Gore did in An Inconvenient Truth. And a stinging reminder that battles for the Environment are won one at a time thanks to dedicated activists.
Rating: 5 /10