Snowden is the new film by Oliver Stone starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt as the titular whistle blower Edward Snowden.
I haven't seen the award winning documentary CitizenFour but was familiar with the story. I thought this was a good biopic with solid acting and a well thought out script. However, there were times when it would just jump forward with Snowden explaining "well this happened and I ended up here".
Minor spoilers
At the end of the film there is a shot of JG-L's Snowden giving a lecture or something over Skype, and at one point the camera turns around and the real Snowden is revealed. This annoyed me for two reasons; if you're going to show the real person, do it during the end credits; during the rotating shot it is really obvious that it is a completely different setting.
In short: Snowden is a well made biopic with some minor structure problems.
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