Fukushima 50

No wonder it sucks. These films are a joke. Boring, wrong and low budget.. The US Ambassador is depicted taking charge of the situation while the Japanese Prime Minister (a slave to America) is frazzled and lost.

This movie is a waste of time. Every second sentence gets repeated 3 times in a row. Useless shouting all the way through and cringe worthy overacting. Pretty sad as the topic is of course very exciting.

One if the worst movies I have ever seen. I kept expecting Godzilla to show up. The dubbing was comical- and the overacting was cringe-worthy. What a waste of the great Ken Watanabe's talent! I couldn't even get through the first hour before I had to turn it off. Just awful!

I watched this movie the first time on Netflix in Europe. It was pretty good, good actors, bit cheap CGI but ok, as far as Japanese movies go, it's pretty decent. However, there were some jarring cuts to "American" soldiers and "American" embassy personnel that completely changed the tone of the movie, putting a spin on it that it the poor Japanese should be helped by Americans or otherwise will not manage to cope with the situation. On a rewatch using a different site, I found out that the jarring American scenes are only in there in western markets, to appeal to foreign viewers. The original cut doesn't include any western bits and leave a lot of the cheesy and redundant scenes out of it. So, if you watch this, make sure you watch the Japanese cut in Japanese language. You will thank me later.

Reactors and their issues ... well actually it is us humans who have the issues, when those reactors have "incidents". Man made, nature made (although one may argue that man is responsible for a lot of the nature catastrophes) or however else ... these things happen! Now I am not an engineer or an expert, so I can't say if or how this would have been possible to avoid. I can say that the movie is quite tension filled and shows us personal heroism - something you may expect from Japanese and something we have seen in a TV show about Tschernobyl too. Good actors and quite the harrowing retelling of what occured. I do expect there to be a bit of exaggeration to say the least ... but what movie does not do that? Even documentaries heighten certain things for better effect. Real life Drama, real life "heroes" ...

Regarding the issue, this is what I call the Titanic mentality, the same happened in Chernobyl, nothing could go wrong. In a country that suffered from 2 nuclear bombs and one of the most sysmicly active so many nuclear reactors is insane. Now the movie, the acting ranged from good, to bad. It's faitfull to history. It's also a bit glorified for the enjoyment of Japanese nation I assume but it's natural. I would like to see a bit more emotion, about more context, I never understood what really prevented a bigger disaster and this movie did nothing to clarify that. But it's not boring or awfull as some reviews call it. It's honest, as honest as it can be done by and to japanese people.

This film tries to recreate what could end up being Japan's worst nuclear accident as it is imagined primarily from within the crippled power plant. Since the short-term outcome is known (the long-term outcome is probably decades away), it's hard to create much, if any, suspense. Unfortunately, there is not much drama either; just a lot of repetitious shouting and running around. The latter is often confusing and suffers from poor editing. Story line focuses on what looks to be some of the real heroes of the day remanufactured by the script. The performances of these movie hero characters tend to be rather unconvincing mainly due to over acting. Interior sets are also on the sparse side and special effects seem to be underutilized. The film is way too long and, as noted earlier, very repetitious. All in all, an underwhelming movie experience. Viewed at Japan Cuts. WILLIAM FLANIGAN

The problem is the film is shot so it looks like the Americans are the personal saviors of the almond eyed children. None of it adds to the story either. I also notice that I didn't learn anything about the disaster either. It was a wasted time.