Review of Oceans

Oceans (2008)
7/10
Good movie but lacking in focus and structure
5 February 2011
Great movie with some stunning imagery from the oceans, but, like other reviewers have pointed out, why do we have to see all the sentimental stuff? It didn't help the narrative. The ocean is about the ocean. We go in to see a movie about the ocean. Period. There was a lot of stuff in this movie that was not related to that subject. The beauty of documentarism is precisely that it is different from fiction, therefore I find it lacking in focus to use actors to get a point across. Actors belong in the theater and fictitious movies. But the imagery from the ocean was great. It was just a bit hard to enjoy when, at any moment, they might cut to something else. Anyway, pretty good movie, with some really amazing stuff from the sea.
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