Pandora's Promise

GREAT MOVIES: Robert Stone's Pandora's Promise (US, 2013) - Chronicles the many environmentalists who have come to believe that nuclear technology is perhaps mankind's greatest hope. Not quite an H-bomb dropped on the environmentalist zeitgeist, "Pandora's Promise" does provoke those who have long opposed nuclear power to at least reconsider it, presenting its arguments in a green light, and asking the question: Can one be committed to the environment, and still be against nuclear power? Most issue docs are propaganda, and Robert Stone's latest is a formidable sales pitch for nukes, yet the film's points are well reasoned and urgent, and should attract viewers who have been drawn to the director's earlier work(such as "Earth Days," a history of the environmentalist movement). Auds, particularly on the smallscreen, may come away bewildered, but possibly persuaded. 2013SUN. RATING: 9