The Rescue

    The Rescue
    2021

    Synopsis

    The enthralling, against-all-odds story that transfixed the world in 2018: the daring rescue of twelve boys and their coach from deep inside a flooded cave in Northern Thailand.

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    Cast

    • Jim WarnySelf
    • Thanet NatisriSelf
    • John VolanthenSelf
    • Derek AndersonSelf
    • Rick StantonSelf
    • Mikko PaasiSelf
    • Richard HarrisSelf
    • Josh MorrisSelf
    • Mitch TorrelSelf
    • Craig ChallenSelf

    Recommendations

    • 100

      The Hollywood Reporter

      The filmmakers — superbly incorporating a combination of stunning archival footage (much of it previously unseen), dramatic reenactments and interviews with the principal figures — present the harrowing tale in riveting nail-biting fashion, leavened by welcome doses of mordant humor from the incredibly brave volunteers.
    • 100

      Variety

      A stunning documentary of bone-deep moral resonance and cinematic mastery that deserves to be experienced on the big screen.
    • 90

      Film Threat

      Sometimes reality is stranger, more unbelievable, and more inspirational than fiction.
    • 88

      Slant Magazine

      Aside from being a thrilling account of a hair-raising rescue, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin’s documentary attests to living a calling.
    • 88

      The Associated Press

      This should be a no-brainer for anyone who watched the saga unfold on television, but even those who weren’t glued to the screen in 2018 should seek it out. The Rescue is easily one of the best documentaries of the year.
    • 86

      The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

      Whereas the directors’ last project, the Oscar-winning free-climbing doc Free Solo, chronicled an open-air kind of anxiety, The Rescue is a claustrophobic exercise in tension, expertly assembled for maximum emotional impact.
    • 85

      Slashfilm

      The Rescue is an edge-of-your-seat experience. Vasarhelyi and Chin shoot this thing like a thriller, combining both actual footage shot during the rescue with recreations featuring the actual divers, blending all this footage together seamlessly to create a wholly cinematic experience.
    • 80

      Screen Daily

      Free Solo wife and husband directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin are forensic in the detail they provide and the range of testimonies they have assembled; the result is a tense, absorbing documentary with a strong emotional charge.