‘How To Blow Up A Pipeline’ Review: Lukas Gage Among Superb Ensemble In Nail-Biting Eco-Terrorist Thriller
deadline.comThe movies have a long history of ‘How To’ movies including How To Murder Your Wife, How To Steal A Million, How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, How To Marry A Millionaire, How To Stuff A Wild Bikini, How To Get Ahead In Advertising, How To Kill Your Neighbor’s Dog, even How To Train Your Dragon.
But the riveting new eco-thriller takes it to new levels of ‘How To’ consciousness in How To Blow Up A Pipeline, which takes a literal approach to its title and the source material on which it is based, Andreas Malm’s radical manifesto by the same name.
The author of that book does not go into exact detail on exactly how you could go about blowing up a pipeline, but instead lays out the urgent necessity to do just that act of property destruction, offering up the belief that this good deed of social justice is a moral obligation to destroy Fossil Fuel infrastructure in order to save the planet from ever-threatening climate change.
The filmmakers of this edge-of-your-seat movie have been smart enough not to try to film the book, but rather turn it into a heist picture, full of the tropes associated with the genre but mixed with a burning reason and mission to pull off an act of extreme vandalism in the name of humanity and life as we know it.
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