Voyage of Time: Life's Journey (2017)

Not even bad in a good way

The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Blending excellent reporting and strong storytelling, this is a disturbing film truly stranger than fiction

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

You should also cut those present-day humanity scenes shots, they're fitting nowhere in the main narrative. They're poorly, different resolution takes which aren't fitting within the rest of the movie's narration. Somehow, I'd compare this with the 1992 Ron Fricke & Mark Magidson's "Baraka", but for that I give 10 of 10. The commentary (pardon, Cate Blanchett, not her fault) is above my understanding in terms of how it fits with the visuals. Either it was scripted based on artistic or religious concepts (you can think of the Scriptures, Buddhism or even Thelema - if you want), you must accept is out-of sync with what you're seeing. It makes no sense. So, hearing Malick dedicated ~ 40 years to this project, I'd say he should've done better with it.

A lot of work for something that slow. I don't have patience to watch this film, so I skipped every 10 seconds every 1 second and I don't feel that I missed much. There was a lot of beautiful scenery that I can really appreciate. This film must have taken years to produce. It was really artistic but very boring, the narrating was weird, I don't claim to understand what the film was about, and I don't think that I should be the one to tell how the narrating should be, but something a little more informative could have helped on the boredom. Skipping every 10 seconds made it very interesting and beautiful.I give it a 6/10 because I watched it in about 10-15 minutes, if I had to watch it all without skipping anything I would probably have turned it off and perhaps given it less than 4/10.

This is not a documentary, but one of my better screen savers lol.Yes, stunning visuals, but a documentary is meant to be informative and educational, and this is neither.The narrating (when present) is annoying. But, very stunning visuals.When I have a cocktail party at my home, this is my backdrop visual on my 65" screen and it's awesome! Of course the volume is off and I have elevator music playing from my stereo and the combined effect is perfect (you're welcome)!-5 for the docu, +5 for the visuals = 5/10 score

This film is a collage of scenes from astronomy, physical geography, marine biology and anthropology.I've watched many Terence Malick's recent films, so I know what to expect. It certainly does contain many visually beautiful scenes, that I would marvel at when I watch the National Geographic or the Discovery Channel. However, I'm not watching these channels. The narration tries to make the film sound deep and profound, but ultimately it isn't. It's a pretentious pseudo-philosophical film.