Battle in Seattle (2007)

Set during the 1999 WTO protest in Seattle, this film follows the experiences of several fictional characters who participate in the events and are affected directly by the escalating violence. Not being long experienced in large scale protests, this had been the first one I was personally aware of that incorporated large planning and police countermeasures, so I was curious as to how the film would present them. Unfortunately the large number of characters really overwhelms the true story and the reasons behind the protest and the escalation. The mostly uninteresting personal lives of the characters takes precedence over the actual timeline of events and the decisions that were made at the time.