This is a look at the world beneath our feet, a mine turned into a research facility, a cave complex and some man-made constructions.
The people doing PR for this film did everything they could to make sure the press saw this on the big screen. They insisted that the images needed to be seen big. And they were right. There are some truly spectacular images in this film.
The problem is that the film is more essay and mediation than a straight documentary, so the film is put together so as to be somewhat hypnotic. We drift off on the images and the music and the result is that despite the film being beautiful to look at we begin to drift off. It's all so low key as to put us to sleep. I fought keeping my else open. Yes, I was enjoying what I was seeing, but at the same time it's not exciting... even if the discovery of human handprints deep deep into a cave complex blows out mind (How did they get that deep with just torches?)
This is great to look at, but it may put you to sleep.
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