Planet of the Humans

The film's broad-based approach can be uneven. Gibbs isn't nearly as compelling a figure as some of the activists he interviews and portrays...

A feature-length made by an avowed environmentalist in 2020 could arm the public with information to work toward a better place along that spectrum...Gibbs doesn't have such critical democratic engagement in mind.

[U]nlike Moore, Gibbs is an understated and somewhat flat narrator.

The loosely structured assemblage of damning information eventually proves more numbing than illuminating.

Gibbs doesn't mention nuclear and - a little lamely, perhaps - has no clear lesson or moral, other than the need to take a fiercely critical look at the environmental establishment. Well, it's always valuable to re-examine a sacred cow.

Cluttered and downbeat but illuminating...

Ultimately, it leaves us unsettled, with a marked sense of instability and doom. [Full review in Spanish]

The film plays out like a tale being told. The Italian director dares the audience to believe it is real.

In taking on the shadow aspects of the environmental movement, the filmmakers have their hearts in the right place. Not sure about the corporate environmentalists.

The Malthusian impulse comes to the fore, and one feels Gibbs is not beyond his own brand of moralism. But Planet of the Humans makes some valuable steps towards an actual reckoning of specious dogma.