It doesn't really have anything to say except we went on a trip and took some pretty pictures in slow motion, and we got a cool new drone.
It's essentially a magazine pictorial, all lens flares and "let's do it again with a reflector panel", no natural location sound etc etc, without any insightful comments and nothing really hanging it all together aside from some early 21st century camera features, the aforementioned slow mo, timelapse, and drone footage. That was cool last century, but is that enough any more? We've all got it on our phones these days.
The real skill these days is having something to say with the footage, and it's a skill missing from this film outside of, 'pretty'.
I doubt Malick had much involvement in this outside of lending his name to it, although his recent output does share the same visual over content failing of this piece.
It's essentially a magazine pictorial, all lens flares and "let's do it again with a reflector panel", no natural location sound etc etc, without any insightful comments and nothing really hanging it all together aside from some early 21st century camera features, the aforementioned slow mo, timelapse, and drone footage. That was cool last century, but is that enough any more? We've all got it on our phones these days.
The real skill these days is having something to say with the footage, and it's a skill missing from this film outside of, 'pretty'.
I doubt Malick had much involvement in this outside of lending his name to it, although his recent output does share the same visual over content failing of this piece.