Peter

This isn’t a film, it’s a book. As such, it’s mostly two hours of talking heads who sound like they are quoting the dialogue direct from its pages. They were brave performances, but the script is terrible. Why is it supposed to be? It never really lands, instead it circles around a mish-mash of themes that aren't fully explored, including some laughable fretting about the threat of global warming. A terminal cancer sufferer isn't going to be focused on the temperature of the planet in one hundred years time. There are some half hearted attempt to underscore the movie with nature themes, but it all feels so incongruous including some clunky attempts to introduce drama that never pay off. The main character leaves a pill behind, but finds it again. The other character might get charged with a crime, but isn't. Shrugs. The story is so contrived that it's difficult to care about the characters. The result being that I couldn't wait for the door to hurry up and close - a signal that the main character had died - so this movie, too, would finally be put out of its misery.

A movie that thinks itself very, very clever but isn't. What is more, it shamelessly panders to film snobs by playing up every single arthouse cliche in the book, the biggest being long stretches of ponderous nothingness. No doubt we'll see the predictable responses. Some will declare it a"cinematic masterpiece" and assert those who saw straight through it as being "not smart enough to understand it". There's nothing here worth understanding. They've been played. Not that it's all terrible. Great ingredients. Cinematography, acting, concept - lend it stylistic credibility, but it overlooks the one thing any movie must do - tell a story. It gets lost in style and never reaches anything of substance. In the end, a waste of light.

Interesting topic, terrible documentary. Skated across the surface before plummeting off the edge entirely, descending into a mess of self promotion and wooden, pompous lecturing. Waste of time unless you're new to the topic. Even then....