Into Eternity
International Film Circuit | Release Date: February 2, 2011 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 11 Critic Reviews
Positive:
7
Mixed:
4
Negative:
0

Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
100
San Francisco ChronicleDavid LewisMay 27, 2011
In a deceptively low-key manner, Danish filmmaker Michael Madsen has beautifully crafted one of the most provocative movies of the year. Read full review
91
IndieWireEric KohnFeb 3, 2011
Although Madsen's survey of warning strategies has an aimless structure prone to repetition, he creates an effective mood that transcends his time-travel gimmick and eventually becomes topical. Read full review
75
New York PostV.A. MusettoFeb 4, 2011
Madsen interviews experts galore, but few seem to know what's going to happen with this project in the next decade -- let alone 100,000 years. Read full review
75
The A.V. ClubScott TobiasFeb 3, 2011
Madsen casts doubt on the notion that this Pandora's box will never be opened, either by some cataclysmic event, like another Ice Age, or drilling by future generations who may not be aware of Onkalo, or even able to decipher warnings of its contents. Something terrible seems likely to happen-just not today. Read full review
70
Boxoffice MagazineVadim RizovFeb 1, 2011
The film reaches way beyond the usual activist crowd by making itself as formally compelling as it is tightly argued. Read full review
70
The New York TimesA.O. ScottFeb 1, 2011
There is something apocalyptically awful about Onkalo, to be sure, but the impulse behind it is noble, and the installation itself has an undeniable grandeur. Read full review
70
Village VoiceJ. HobermanFeb 1, 2011
It is meant to boggle the mind and inspire awe-and it does. Read full review
60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneFeb 7, 2011
Most important, given that Onkalo will hide and bury just some of Finland's waste, what about everyone else's? [14 & 21 Feb. 2011, p. 139]
60
EmpireSam ToyFeb 1, 2011
A captivating, and sometimes alarming, exposé of the business end of nuclear power. Watch as part of a behind-the-sofa double bill with Countdown To Zero. Read full review
60
Time OutJoshua RothkopfFeb 1, 2011
Into Eternity has the grandeur of ominous suggestion, but might have benefitted from a director more creatively unbound-an Errol Morris ready to play around at the end of the world. Read full review
40
New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanFeb 4, 2011
Unfortunately, Madsen (a Danish filmmaker, not the American actor) has an approach to this rich topic that is repetitive and simplistic, as if he wasn't quite sure how to fill out even a brief feature. Read full review
More From This Movie

68 Critic Reviews

tbd User Reviews

Details & Credits|Trailers

Current Movie Releases
By MetascoreBy User Score
1 81 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
2 77 Project Hail Mary
3 75 Send Help
4 73 Hoppers
5 72 The Sheep Detectives
SEE ALL
Essential Links
New on Amazon Prime Video
New on Netflix
Coming Soon to DVD/Blu-ray
SEE ALL