Fresh
Gibney's movies are professional and solidly executed, informative if you go in underinformed but rarely surprising or aesthetically noteworthy.
Sam Adams, TheWrap
Overview
Alex Gibney explores the phenomenon of Stuxnet, a self-replicating computer virus discovered in 2010 by international IT experts. Evidently commissioned by the US and Israeli governments, this malware was designed to specifically sabotage Iran’s nuclear programme. However, the complex computer worm ended up not only infecting its intended target but also spreading uncontrollably.
Director and cast
- Alex Gibney Director
- Yossi Melman as Self
- Ralph Langner as Self
- Emad Kiyaei as Self
- Richard A. Clarke as Self
- Eric Chien as Self
- Liam O'Murchu as Self
- George W. Bush as Self (archive footage)
- Hillary Clinton as Self (archive footage)
- Mikhail Gorbachev as Self (archive footage)
- Ronald Reagan as Self (archive footage)
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
90%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Zero Days is ... under attack from little stylistic worms that threaten to turn an otherwise solid doc on the evil that 21st-century hackers do into a hack job.
David Fear, Rolling Stone
Fresh
Since no terrorist group or nation state has ever claimed credit for Stuxnet, Gibney can only hypothesize about its origins, but he makes an alarmingly lucid (if circumstantial) case for the culpability of the United States and Israel.
Chuck Wilson, Village Voice
Fresh
Don't be distracted by the ominous score, the layered displays of code, the juxtaposition of bursting balloon and mushrooming cloud; that's just (alarm) bells and whistles.
Matthew Lickona, San Diego Reader
Fresh
By necessity, far more questions than answers are raised in Zero Days. All of the questions and answers are troubling.
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor
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