The 11th Hour

Producer-narrator Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary, directed and co-written (with Leo) by environmental activists Nadia Conners and Leila Conners Petersen, deserves credit for passion and good intentions, and for the cinemagenic eloquence of some of its talking heads (from physicist Stephen Hawking to health guru Andrew Weil and various green advocates), but…well, frankly it’s a little dull. The film recycles familiar pollution-war-and-disaster images while the discussion touches on the usual thoughtless culprits (you), the standard evil villains (Big Oil, Global Capitalism), and the inadequacy of the U.S. Constitution (the Founding Fathers having failed to foresee climate change). Finally, things settle into a round-robin of proposed solutions, with everyone nattering about their own pet projects.