Battle in Seattle

Approaching its subject with a neat idealism and packaging its political fervor in the most facile of forms, the film boasts a cast loaded with Hollywoods both new and old and wraps its message up with eye-rolling naivete.

If current events hold, Battle in Seattle could look like prophecy as well as history.

There is a monster in Battle in Seattle, but it never speaks and remains mysterious.

The movie's dramatic devices are schematic, but in the end there's something strangely moving about Battle in Seattle.