hated it

Rating: 1/10 (15 March 1999)

This movie was pretentous drivel. 3 hours of a mix of National Geographic with sureal "action" that is reminiscent of a perfume or jeans ad. Plot is non existent. Fortune Cookie quality Zen philosophy voice overs will irritate many viewers very much like Chinese water torture. A beautiful nature film documentory could be made from the footage shot; and if it was cut down to about one hour, I would watch it. I can see how if you have never contemplated basic philosophical thoughts before (or if you find lyrics in pop music as "deep"), that this movie could appeal to you. Besides Nick Noltes' role, it seems that the other actors are more like props than charactors (for some reason I found that disturbing). If you find plot, dialogue, focus and brevity as "musts" in a film, then don't see this trite piece of "stream of consciousness." Rivers of platitudes cascading over beautiful nature scenes do not a film make. I would hope that if I would make a movie only every 20 years or so that I could find focus and plot. This is surreal modern art goes to the movies for a mind numbing 3hrs - dreadful. "Apocalypse Now" achieved what this movie only muddles around about. The horror, the horror.