Cave of Forgotten Dreams, 2011. A film crew gets access to ancient cave paintings.
Written by, directed by & starring Werner Herzog.
Concept: 2/4 (Indifferent). It's great that this footage was made and released, but it's not really suited to a feature film.
Story: 0/4 (Terrible). No story.
Characters: 1/4 (Bad). Not that kind of movie (although Herzog does have a way of bringing out his subjects' weirdness).
Dialog: 1/4 (Bad)
Pacing: 3/4 (Good)
Cinematography: 2/4 (Indifferent). It might not have been possible to do better under the circumstances, but I was decidedly unimpressed by the photography. It probably doesn't help that we saw in on video (therefor in 2D), and recently watched Planet Earth.
Special effects/design: 3/4 (Good). We get a brief glimpse of a computer-generated 3D map of the cave, created by "laser scans," which is pretty cool. It's very frustrating that they didn't do more with that.
Acting: 2/4 (Indifferent)
Music: 3/4 (Good)
Subjective Rating: 6/10 (Okay, 2/4). I highly recommend it to see the cave, which is awesome. Sadly, it's not much of a movie. About half cave footage, and half Werner Herzog being all Werner Herzog-y.
Objective Rating (Average): 1.9/4 (Eh)
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