The 33

PG-13

Released Nov 13, 2015

2 hr. 5 min.

Drama

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Disaster strikes on Aug. 5, 2010, as a copper and gold mine collapses in Chile, trapping 33 men underground. With more than 2,000 feet of rock in their way, members of a rescue team work tirelessly for 69 days to save the seemingly doomed crew. Beneath the rubble, the miners begin an epic quest to survive, contending with suffocating heat and the need for food and water. With family, friends and the rest of the world watching, it becomes a race against time and a true test of the human spirit.

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Critics Consensus

The 33 offers an appropriately inspirational account of real-life heroism, but its stirring story and solid performances are undermined by a flawed focus and an overreliance on formula.

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Aurora A

This is a good movie in so many ways, don't read the bad reviews and just enjoy the story.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/22/24

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luciano o

Inspiring and well crafted film. Loved it

Rated 4 out of 5 stars

11/12/23

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Solomon R

The 33 es una película sobre mineros atrapados, esta película es una visita obligada. para personas que ingresan al servicio público y trae un elenco impresionante de cartas como Oscar del programa La Oficina y el actor de voz de Pus in boots. Una de las mejores películas de desastres que se centra en la historia en lugar de la sangre y el sufrimiento. Esta película tiene una banda sonora impresionante y es una película familiar perfecta con niños mayores que entienden de política. También muestra cómo algunas corporaciones están dispuestas a sacrificar vidas humanas por más dinero. Pero no me gustó que a los mineros originales no les dieran una parte de los ingresos de la película. En general 3.5 bueno pero no excelente.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

06/02/23

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Audience Member

Interesting true story and well acted, but overall not well done. It evokes an emotional response at times (family learning they're alive) but fails completely at other moments, like the last supper, which is awkward and almost embarrassing to watch.

Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars

02/12/23

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Audience Member

I enjoyed this one overall, good inspirational true story of survival after disaster strikes in a Chile mine. Good cast to support the story too.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

01/13/23

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Audience Member

Based on a true story, it was amazing. Well thought out and executed, they did a great job in making the emotions of the miners real, even if that emotion was ennui. The end truly was bittersweet as you read what happened to the original 33.

Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars

02/08/23

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Patricia Riggen

Director

Antonio Banderas

Mario Sepúlveda

Rodrigo Santoro

Laurence Golborne

Juliette Binoche

María Segovia

Gabriel Byrne

Andre Sougarret

Lou Diamond Phillips

Luis Urzua "Don Lucho"

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Sara Michelle Fetters

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While the elements that do not work frustrate, the stuff revolving around those who truly deserve to be labeled as heroes thankfully never does.

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 22, 2016

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Udita Jhunjhunwala

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There is plenty of drama and suspense in this true-life story, but the screenplay relies too heavily on formula and is swathed in Hollywood sentimentality.

Jun 21, 2016

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Max Weiss

Baltimore Magazine

Corny as it was, I cried when the men were rescued.

Rated: 2.5/4

Jun 12, 2016

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Jaime Grijalba

Vague Visages

Based on a real story that happened in Chile (filmed in part here and with some Chilean actors), this is the worst case of whitewashing in recent years, as well as being the film that contains Juliette Binoche’s worst performance ever, and that’s a sin.

Dec 1, 2023

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Don Shanahan

Every Movie Has a Lesson

Riggen certainly still employs a plentiful creative license to dramatize and compress this trauma into two hours, but the lionizing on one end and the vilifying on the other is remarkably low.

Rated: 4/5

Sep 4, 2023

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Keith Garlington

Keith & the Movies

“The 33” hits nearly every disaster movie tick. I still enjoyed the film overall, but I kept waiting for it to do something unique. It never quite does.

Rated: 3/5

Aug 25, 2022

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Synopsis

Disaster strikes on Aug. 5, 2010, as a copper and gold mine collapses in Chile, trapping 33 men underground. With more than 2,000 feet of rock in their way, members of a rescue team work tirelessly for 69 days to save the seemingly doomed crew. Beneath the rubble, the miners begin an epic quest to survive, contending with suffocating heat and the need for food and water. With family, friends and the rest of the world watching, it becomes a race against time and a true test of the human spirit.

Director: Patricia Riggen
Executive Producer: Carlos Eugenio Lavín, Leopoldo Enriquez, Alan Zhang, Jose Luis Escolar
Screenwriter: Mikko Alanne, Craig Borten, Michael Thomas
Distributor: Warner Bros. Pictures
Production Co: Phoenix Pictures
Rating: PG-13 (Some Language|A Disaster Sequence)
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 13, 2015, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 22, 2016
Box Office (Gross USA): $12.0M

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