2/10
Really Werner, 1 hour and 20 minutes of opera
20 October 2022
Fast forward to 1 hour 15 minutes and basically you have seen the whole documentary, it's an hour and 5 minutes of volcanoes erupting and once you've seen one you've seen them all. I really enjoyed Grizzly Man but this is on a level of boredom I have not seen in a while. It runs for 1 hour 20 minutes and really the whole story (the title of the documentary) could have been told in 20 minutes. Sorry Werner but your incessant use of opera, stock footage of volcanoes got me fast forwarding after about 35 minutes and that was with the documentary in the background. 2 people got too near a volcano and died after not heeding the previous warnings they had. Well let's pad it out to 1 hour 20 minutes with useless video. I am not sure who related volcanoes erupting to opera songs, new one on me. Herzog seems to have an attraction to "found or archived" footage and while it worked in Grizzly Man it certainly did not work here. A boring mess of regurgitated video. I think a 2 rating is being kind.
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