The Trick

The Trick tries very hard to make it's subject matter compelling, to make a thriller come alive from its source material, but unfortunately fails to ever really warm up.

It's a truly fascinating story, the outcomes of what happened could quite literally have changed how the world thinks and acts.

A somewhat strange choice of material for a drama, but it made a change from cop shows, and it was nice to only have to invest 90 minutes of time in a one off drama, and not the usual six weeks.

I found it a little slow, half baked perhaps the right term, it was well acted for sure, nicely produced, but I don't think they made full use of the material, until the last fifteen minutes or so.

The impacts could have been incalculable, they were hardly mentioned.

As mentioned though the acting was great, Watkins and Hamilton never disappoint.

Worth watching, but be aware it's not the usual pulse racing drama that's generally on, 7/10.

My Review - The Trick A BBC Production

My Rating 7/10

This new movie from The BBC is promoted as a thriller , sorry it's not a thriller at all .

Actually there's nothing thrilling at all about this movie the word Id use to describe it is chilling.

It's a true account of events in 2009 when Professor Phil Jones a renown Climatologist played by Jason Watkins found himself at the center of "an international media storm, and the victim of cyberterrorism" Jason Watkins is so convincing as the scientist who is suffering anxiety and not prepared to handle the media onslaught as he needs to be to defend his reputation.

"With time running out against an unseen enemy, The Trick looks at the potentially devastating consequences to humanity from climate change denial; how a media storm undermined public confidence in the science and how the concept of 'truth' took a back seat -- causing us to lose a decade of action," The film also features Victoria Hamilton, George MacKay, Jerome Flynn, Adrian Edmondson, Aneirin Hughes, Pooky Quesnel, Richard Elfyn and Rhashan Stone.

Jerome Flynn stars as Neil Wallis, a former News of the World executive and George MacKay as Sam Bowen, they have the daunting task of defending the reputation of Professor Jones and The University of East Anglia. "The film also charts the unjustified persecution of Phil Jones, his wife Ruth's support of her husband and the fight for the ultimate exoneration of himself and the science." The Trick is written by Owen Sheers and directed by Pip Broughton. Ben Irving serves as executive producer, with Adrian Bate as producer.

This film is well acted well directed with no tricks it just tells a story and an important story it's a little dull in places but so worth a look.

While this story has merit, there is peer reviewed work out there that shows the really widespread stalling of addressing anthropomorphic aspect of climate change is not outright denial. The social science surveys and analysis show that the resistance is coming from pitching climate change solution as massive "economic justice" and wealth transfer. This especially after the massively botched Doha conference where language used in presentations and final memorandum made wealth redistribution a core aspect. In other words the exploitation of this issue and problem by certain groups who controlled the megaphone and wished to create counterproductive massive tax schemes and international bureaucracy to administer "redistribution" are the real problem in stalling progress.

This is why carbon capture and sequestration, which everyone knows will be the core solution, gets fob off by equally anti-science people in the climate change adovacy business -- because it doesn't fit with creation of giant tax bureaucracy. MIT has hundreds of people now working in their carbon capture and sequestrations project. And the top engineering universities in China, Japan and Europe all have major carbon capture programs. So unless you are going to say MIT, Princeton, Harvard, CalTech and Stanford are ant-science, don't dismiss carbon capture as the main technology that will solve this.

Denial of carbon capture is something the climate groups that want to create tax and wealth redistribution are incessantly doing. Just google: +princeton, "americans are unaware of carbon capture and sequestration technology, according to a new study"

Good film , but an important film to underline the importance of eeping our planet healthy and survivable in forthseeable times and generations. Its a testament of how a scientific nerd, where bullied by the powerful and rich that runs and values planet earth on a monetary scale, always wearing their gasmask in hiding in case co and co2 levels should reach intoxicating levels, and the athmosphgeric and surface level temperatures so high and water rise so wast due to ice caps in the antartic and greenland melts due to human activity climate change, a nerd that did when every scrutinizing attempt to make disbelief, showed that human made climate change is a true factor to take seriously by mankind.

Its a film that do the turtle race towards the sea, its as slow on the plot like the common governmental reaction to the subject of climate change, and in the end you are really not sure what this film really was about other than saving a life and a reputation. The acting is not outstanding, but the main caracters wife's role did step above the rest of the average. It might for some radical tree huggers feel as a thriller but for the average tv-viewer its close to channel shift on the remote control of the tv set.

Im a grumpy old man, that has over the past 25 years collected and studied loads of meteorologic parameters from my vantage pre 2 weather station(and weather wizard, maximum weather and a massive amount of other hobbymeteorologistinstruments, even a home made tide level measuring device) and it all tells me that the rise in average temperature and a small sea level rise at my geographical standpoint here in southwest norway is a true fact. If it is humancaused i shall not delve into, just conclude that im worried about where to live in 30 years, cause the fact is my house is placed by the seashore and the storm tides creeping up the brick wall becomes higher and more frequent, so im kind of worried yes.buying land at higher level can be a good idea but as ive aid already, im old.

I do however praise the works and the guts of the professor who were ultimately right in his conclusiveness, therefore a recommend to feel and view the forthcoming desperation for generations to come.