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It's no definitive masterpiece but it's damn close.

Beautiful, moving film.

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

It's an abomination to feature "reviews" by philistines who clearly have no more familiarity with films of distinction than mountain boars have with haute cuisine, which, of course, is wasted on them. They are like the ignorant savages who threw shade on Picasso because his revolutionary deconstruction of faces and figures violated their slavish and unimaginative devotion to representational art. Their obtuseness in the face of an artist like Herzog would not be lessened by my or anyone's efforts to enlighten them here. They are no doubt sealed in their benighted pits of uncomprehending intellectual quicksand for the remainder of their sad, ludicrous lives on earth. Instead of proudly demonstrating their unabashed ignorance here, they would be better advised to slink off to populate over-ripe venues like Rotten Tomatos.

I don't believe I have ever seen a movie this poorly put together and acted. And the music! The music was weird and completely out of place. And the strangest of all...I wonder how Herzog ever got Lawrence Krauss, a world renown theoretical physicist to act in this bomb! It is simply beyond me. My respect for both have declined I'm afraid. Sorry to have wasted time on this... phew! what a stinker!

From the very beginning I kept thinking, are they expecting me to take this seriously? The dialog was just SO bad, and the delivery SO stilted, the camera angles SO affected, it's almost like someone set out to make a bad movie on purpose. I suppose there was a plot... something about scientists coming to a south American country to investigate an environmental disaster and getting abducted at the airport by scary gun- toting thugs wearing ski masks. From there it appeared to be going into some kind of psychological battle between the head captor and the calm and cool tall blond female head scientist. But I just couldn't bring myself to care, and I only made it 30 minutes or so into it before I realized it wasn't going to get better, and shut it off.

This review contains the plot spoiler in the film's own description used by Amazon. The opening scene we see Dr. Laura Summerfeld, cuffed, and blindfolded. The film then digresses 30 hours as we see her and two colleges fly in a plane and they all get kidnapped, taking us up to where we were. Why the flashback? I have no idea. One of the bad guys in a ski mask wears glasses and sits in a wheel chair. One of the guys she meets at the airport wears glasses and sits in a wheel chair. Once Laura's blindfold is removed, umm...Yeah, they thought it was stupid too. The 3 scientists are to survey an ecological disaster that destroyed a lake and is causing a salt flat to spread...soon it will encompass the world, we are told, although this salt flat is on an island so I had trouble with the math on that one. Oh yeah, volcano that will explode and kill the planet, some talk of aliens who like western fat chicks as predicted by Nostradamus or something. The dialogue was very idiotic attempting to go deep. And then Laura ends up on the salt flat with two blind boys. The whole kidnapping thing was idiotic. It sounded like they were playing Islamic prayer calls in this South America "desert" as background music. I kept thinking this was near Morocco or something. (Filmed in Bolivia). Plot didn't make sense. Film was slow moving. Acting was just a phone call away.