Somewhere in the Peruvian rain forest a number of scrolls with ancient manuscripts on them are found. The texts on these manuscript is one of the kind that makes humans change, change so much that it might be held as the next step in evolution. Some people want to bring these scrolls to the public, some want to see them destroyed because they threaten their lifestyles. Somewhere in between the two groups inevitably collide.
Let me start with stating that I am not a spiritual guy. I'm an atheist, and believe in nothing but myself. I do believe that positive action towards others is the only way to receive positive actions back, but that is how far I go. No further. This film is highly spiritual. Setting out the world and the people living on it as a constant stream of energy going from the one point to the other, feeding the ones sending and receiving it. So, this film was bound to fail for me. I didn't know that, as I went into it knowing nothing about it (which is the same way as I go into just about all films I see).
Still. I tried watching this film like it was, doing the same what I do with any film - trying to accept the premises it makes as the truth for the duration of the film. When I managed to do that I was confronted with the film as itself. And that included a lot of bad acting. Acting so bad it is worse than what you get to see watching the average TV-drama. People with blank expressions on their faces, just smiling away the hours of the day, people reading their lines without feeling their value.
So. When the film ended I was glad it was over because it meant I could go home. For me this film is an absolute waste of perfectly good celluloid. Not even worthy to be broadcast on television. A crap theme played so badly it hurt the eyes.
2 out of 10 completely wasted spirits.
Let me start with stating that I am not a spiritual guy. I'm an atheist, and believe in nothing but myself. I do believe that positive action towards others is the only way to receive positive actions back, but that is how far I go. No further. This film is highly spiritual. Setting out the world and the people living on it as a constant stream of energy going from the one point to the other, feeding the ones sending and receiving it. So, this film was bound to fail for me. I didn't know that, as I went into it knowing nothing about it (which is the same way as I go into just about all films I see).
Still. I tried watching this film like it was, doing the same what I do with any film - trying to accept the premises it makes as the truth for the duration of the film. When I managed to do that I was confronted with the film as itself. And that included a lot of bad acting. Acting so bad it is worse than what you get to see watching the average TV-drama. People with blank expressions on their faces, just smiling away the hours of the day, people reading their lines without feeling their value.
So. When the film ended I was glad it was over because it meant I could go home. For me this film is an absolute waste of perfectly good celluloid. Not even worthy to be broadcast on television. A crap theme played so badly it hurt the eyes.
2 out of 10 completely wasted spirits.