Not bad. Not best. Narration copies Charles Dance's & Sir David snippets from the Hunt , Dynasties, Markeet Manor & Savage Kingdom. Series starts in worst drought in generations in swamp wetland area. Focus is on African predators & conflicts when all creatures are at most desperate & few survive.
Narrator is decent, acting, not merely reading. He's engaged & almost sounds like Patrick Stuart in Star Trek TV. Script copies unique passages from the above listed better series.
Photography is only of daytime. No real gore. Yet I fail to see why filmmakers continue to make films when wildlife are at MOST desperate.
My gripe/ con: Tries to fool viewer into complacency that period is in 1980s instead of current times. NO climate change message causing more 2 yr droughts, nor ppl poaching, poisoning predators, setting thousands of snares that kill every thing horrifically, grazing cattle thru wildlife reserves, farms draining rivers, hunting all wildlife as bushmeat, NO modern problems ALL African wildlife face daily in past generation. Music is ok, too many commercials. 1 hour episode has footage for 15 minutes. OK for young kids but still fictional due to omission of human adverse impacts humanity causes.
Narrator is decent, acting, not merely reading. He's engaged & almost sounds like Patrick Stuart in Star Trek TV. Script copies unique passages from the above listed better series.
Photography is only of daytime. No real gore. Yet I fail to see why filmmakers continue to make films when wildlife are at MOST desperate.
My gripe/ con: Tries to fool viewer into complacency that period is in 1980s instead of current times. NO climate change message causing more 2 yr droughts, nor ppl poaching, poisoning predators, setting thousands of snares that kill every thing horrifically, grazing cattle thru wildlife reserves, farms draining rivers, hunting all wildlife as bushmeat, NO modern problems ALL African wildlife face daily in past generation. Music is ok, too many commercials. 1 hour episode has footage for 15 minutes. OK for young kids but still fictional due to omission of human adverse impacts humanity causes.
