‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’ Review: A Searing Eco-Thriller With Spirit and Ideas
thewrap.comromance doesn’t mean empty idealism in Goldhaber’s film, co-written by Goldhaber, Jorgan Sjol and Ariela Barer as a loose adaptation of Andreas Malm’s 2020 book.
While the characters steering an act of terrorism around a Texan pipeline are all young and hotheaded, they aren’t out there to make some futile noise about climate change.
There is a real point to the fatality-free disturbance these rightfully angry citizens of the world have carefully planned out, and what they have in mind is something a lot more significant than rattling a few local authorities in confusion to be ultimately shrugged off by them.From the early moments of “How to Blow Up a Pipeline,” cinematographer Tehillah De Castro’s sepia-tinted grainy lens summons a Steven Soderbergh-ian vibe—think the style of “Erin Brockovich” and “Traffic”— and Goldhaber’s dynamic direction meets and amplifies the DP’s aesthetic ambitions.
The mazy script, with a complex yet exciting structure guided by organic flashbacks, introduces us to each of the eight members of the collective along with their real-world struggles and connection to activism.
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