The movie doesn't have any sort of story, point or drama but it works as a showcase of beautiful scenery and random interesting sports. The tag line is "call of the elements" but it's actually just various water sports and skiing.
It started off nicely by showing surfing, diving, skiing, cycling etc. But instead of showing us other cool sports it for no apparent reason went back to surfing, surf kiting, wind surfing and skiing which occupy the latter half of the movie. It's like they ran out of sports mid-way. There's even a short section about a dude who does uphill e-cycling but something as basic as rock climbing is completely missing, which makes use of all the filler content even more baffling.
The talking heads are such a waste of time, each repeating the same hollow points about how what they do makes them feel alive and how powerful mother nature is. A couple of them mention that it can be dangerous which makes it even more fun but that is never investigated fuether in the movie. It would've been so much more interesting to hear them talk about the danger, their relationship with death, motivation and how their families cope with it. But all they talk about is how fun and satisfying it is. The movie only shows the happy side.
It's a beautiful movie but extremely shallow without any kind of point or drama that would make you care about it.
It started off nicely by showing surfing, diving, skiing, cycling etc. But instead of showing us other cool sports it for no apparent reason went back to surfing, surf kiting, wind surfing and skiing which occupy the latter half of the movie. It's like they ran out of sports mid-way. There's even a short section about a dude who does uphill e-cycling but something as basic as rock climbing is completely missing, which makes use of all the filler content even more baffling.
The talking heads are such a waste of time, each repeating the same hollow points about how what they do makes them feel alive and how powerful mother nature is. A couple of them mention that it can be dangerous which makes it even more fun but that is never investigated fuether in the movie. It would've been so much more interesting to hear them talk about the danger, their relationship with death, motivation and how their families cope with it. But all they talk about is how fun and satisfying it is. The movie only shows the happy side.
It's a beautiful movie but extremely shallow without any kind of point or drama that would make you care about it.