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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75The A.V. ClubScott TobiasThe A.V. ClubScott TobiasMadsen 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.
- 75New York PostV.A. MusettoNew York PostV.A. MusettoMadsen 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.
- The film reaches way beyond the usual activist crowd by making itself as formally compelling as it is tightly argued.
- 70The New York TimesA.O. ScottThe New York TimesA.O. ScottThere is something apocalyptically awful about Onkalo, to be sure, but the impulse behind it is noble, and the installation itself has an undeniable grandeur.
- 70Village VoiceJ. HobermanVillage VoiceJ. HobermanIt is meant to boggle the mind and inspire awe-and it does.
- 60EmpireEmpireA 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.
- 60Time OutJoshua RothkopfTime OutJoshua RothkopfInto 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.
- 60The New YorkerAnthony LaneThe New YorkerAnthony LaneMost 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]
- 40New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanNew York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanUnfortunately, 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.