How to Blow Up a Pipeline

How to Blow Up a Pipeline is as immersive as it is concise -- the group’s hunger to effect change by criminal means is illustrative of a mindset that is already a reality for some. Making such profound shifts engaging and entertaining is impressive.

Whether you approve of the extreme action taken by the octet will depend on how you approach this modest but well-made film.

Potent, powerful and unrelenting, How to Blow Up a Pipeline doesn’t disguise its political agenda, and in an era of wishy-washy bothsiderism, this comes as a much-needed and ideologically meaningful relief.

“How to Blow Up a Pipeline” sucks you in through the scruffy efficiency of its filmmaking and it doesn’t care whether you argue with it or not.

A nervy eco-thriller that doubles as a persuasive piece of activist messaging, Daniel Goldhaber’s film vibrates with urgency.

It’s not a manifesto, really, but a matter-of-fact portrayal of the palpable anger emanating from a betrayed generation.

Goldhaber thrillingly paints this message with the manic energy of a Safdie brothers film through its handheld camera and incessant shouting from its leads, punctuated by Gavin Brivik's distressing Daniel Lopatin-esque score.

The theories of Andreas Malm come to life in a fictional story about a random cast of characters united by one big idea: global warming is so urgent a threat to life that it is their duty to resist it by any means necessary.

Pipeline is simultaneously a top-notch thriller and an examination of our modern political system where the voices of individual citizens seem to carry no weight.

The warning buried within “How to Blow Up a Pipeline” might be challenging to uncover