Hostile Planet (2019) User Reviews

Science not politics

[giantsloar · 9/10 · 5 April 2019]

Climate change is a scientific fact. Climate change denial is a political agenda. Fortunately, this presents the science.

Not political at all

[mateo130 · 8/10 · 23 April 2019]

Don't understand all these people bragging about politics and a hidden agenda. This movie was about animal drama and all the external factors which does have an effect on them. Climate change and elevated temperatures are there especially at the mountains and polar areas. Nothing political about that.

Simply incredible!

[obasioli-13-685943 · 9/10 · 7 August 2019]

I watched all latest David Attenborough documentaries and this one is just as good. Footage is amazing, this is an undertaking of gigantic proportions. As for the "political" part, all I can say to those climate change deniers is to paraphrase JFK during The Cuban Missile Crisis: If we ... do what they want us to do (which in this case is nothing), none of us will be alive later to tell them that they were wrong.

There's no agenda and no blame leveled here, just observable facts

[t-unknown-one · 10/10 · 10 April 2019]

The facts are the global climate IS changing but never once did he say it was 'the end of the world' or that 'it's mankinds fault', I'm not sure what some of these naysayer reviewers were watching but they were hearing what they wanted to hear, not what he said. He did blame man for overfishing during the ocean episode and it wasn't a lie or liberal propaganda, just an observable fact. There is no way crews of cameramen, scientists and naturalists can spend this amount of time in the field gathering data and shooting footage without seeing the state of the environment. You want them to NOT report what they see and the data they record? I recommend watching this show for anybody willing to pull their head out of the sand and just learn a few things.

Breathtakingly Spectacular

[roshansalgadodarcy-24748 · 10/10 · 4 April 2019]

This Series is a true masterpiece of photography and documentary film making. The visuals are stunningly beautiful and the soundtrack brilliantly compliments the spectacular visuals. This is a truly wonderful show. Its prominent references to climate facts are also exceedingly brave for a documentary aimed at a primarily American audience - The high levels of scientific illiteracy and science denial in the U.S. will no doubt result in a 'hostile' reception among some.

Beautiful but more like an action movie

[scorpiogemini · 7 May 2019]

I was expecting a show with images of animals living in hostile environment, and valuable information about their lives and HOW they manage to live and survive but the show falls short in this. Don't get me wrong, the images and the shots are spectacular, but what they have focused upon is mostly prey being preyed upon and killed. This series seems to be about the struggles animals are facing when it comes to find food our being killed by predetors. Its obvious the intent is to create an atmosphere of action and thrills. They don't focus more then 2-3 minutes on each species they show us, whick feels like such a waste when we see the behind the scenes photage of some of the scenes. They haste from one animal quickly to the next.

Like the photage of the bats in the dessert. What a waste! We are shown around 1-2 minutes of photage of bat swarms getting preyed upon by hawks. Thats it. Its like the show does not care about sharing anything valuable about the animals and species itself, what kind of bats they are, how they live and suvive. They just wanna show action photage. Like the hunting hawks in the dessert hunting a rabbit, what valuable information do we get? None! We just see beautiful action photage of hawks, killing a bunny. Same with the kangoroos, we just see a 2 minute of photage of kangaroos melting in the sun. There is no valuable lessons or information to this series. Only nice action shots where the behind the scenes videos at youtube actually were more interesting to watch. 3 years of filming small 2-3 minute sequences? You can do better national geographic!

In short, beautiful photage. But this is no BBC production, and it shows.

You jaw will drop in awe !

[rajattiltoo · 10/10 · 23 April 2019]

One of the most fascinating and incredibly shot documentaries I have seen in recent memories. Its impossibly hard to fathom how they shot it. If you have as fervent a taste or even a few degrees less for wildlife docs... this should truly enchant you. Must watch !

Revolutionary!

[mikecas · 10/10 · 2 April 2019]

Truly captivating work! And who doesn't like bear grylls, I ask you, who? Not I

Amazing Beautiful & Engaging Series

[aebernard · 10/10 · 24 November 2019]

Absolutely love this series. The visuals are amazingly beautiful, and the story telling element really draws you in to the various animals lives. There were so many scenes that literally left me on the edge of my seat in anticipation. Personally, I did not find anything political about the show. How is it political to state a fact about rising temperatures in a region impacting an animal's life? It's just the reality of our world right now, and it wouldn't make sense not to mention it when the whole premise of the show is the various obstacles that animals face in surviving.

People hear what they want to hear

[ps-60033 · 10/10 · 1 May 2019]

The mountain episode clearly explains how climate change has caused an increase in avalanches. Notice how I said, as he did, climate change, not 'global warming'. The radical shifts in temperature allow for it to get cold enough for the snow overhangs to form on ridges but it warms suddenly and they fall under their own weight. Bear Grylls doesn't write the narration, it's done by a writer with access to the facts. Everybody should watch this show, it's not all doom & gloom and every episode ends on a hopeful note as climate change is having it's negative effects the wildlife is observed adapting to the changes.

As good as Attenborough

[robertemerald · 10/10 · 29 December 2019]

All six episodes here reflect something of the format of Planet Earth (2006, 2016). I bought this show around the same time as I bought Seven worlds, One Planet (2019). Like that show, Hostile Planet combines staggeringly rare footage with cautionary conservation. The filming is magnificent, and each episode gives some insight into filming and how difficult it was. Apparently Hostile Planet was three years in the making. Worth every penny.

Amazing photography, dialogue there to help us swallow carbon tax.

[abrakadab · 5/10 · 20 June 2019]

Beautifully shot, must've required alot of time and effort, but the dialog is horrible mentioning climate change every 2nd sentence, unbearable! Must mute! What makes it worse for me is I remember the climate gate emails, proof the weather data is fudged in favor of the carbon tax agenda, so this dialog was just making me angry! ha! Bring out the free energy tech instead of trying to tax, so greedy, are they not mindful of death?

Amazing, Spectacular, Stunning

[IceCharon · 13 September 2019]

This is top notch in every single way, in every single detail. The directing, the music, the photography, the narrating everything is top notch and spot on. Factual, scientific, No political BS, no BS theories and so on. Stunning!

Incredible footage

[snickersfrickers · 10/10 · 24 December 2019]

Just amazing. About as good as Planet Earth. Recommended visually pleasing and educational watching.

Lovely Documentary

[farshidkarimi · 9/10 · 24 April 2019]

I just do not understand why people do not like to listen to the facts and truth. Do they feel guilty for the disasters they are generating on the nature, the earth and the animals? It is a disturbing fact: Humans are the trouble with all the waste and pollution they are creating. I love this documentary because it is rubbing our nose in it, telling us we are to blame. The shots are amazing (especially the first episode and the ducklings.

the best wild life documentary ever!

[harishh-46240 · 10/10 · 10 November 2020]

Gripping tale about the survivors of this hostile planet in the backdrop of climate change.

It's great to watch but not a lot of new material

[slenehan-169-795826 · 8/10 · 9 September 2020]

I really enjoy watching this. It's got great visuals and is really interesting. However, if you've watched the Planet Earth documentaries then you've already seen a lot of what is covered on Hostile Planet. I see Hostile Planet as being the "Best of hostile scenes from Planet Earth". Hostile Planet is still very well done though!

Must watch

[amitmpatel777 · 9/10 · 20 September 2020]

Amazing work, how easy life we are living and still not satisfied just a thought after watching this. Great stuff and the hard work done to shoot all this is commendable.

Awesome video footage, stupid message

[switchmacenzie · 8/10 · 16 November 2019]

So tired of people pushing their fake climate change agenda. Just watch for the cool video footage

Beautiful documentary about the beauty and harsh reality of nature

[zenmateisshite · 9/10 · 6 May 2019]

Beautiful documentary about the beauty and harsh reality of nature.

This show provides a lot of compelling stories about the struggles animals face in various locations around the globe and focuses on the harsh nature of the wild. Nat Geo have been providing such footage for decades (like the cheetah hunting the gazelle) but never focused a whole series (as far as I'm aware) on the hardship of survival.

However, the show also mentions that climate change is contributing to these struggles but offers no proof. The BBC has one that shows the change over time using footage from space. I'm sure Nat Geo can find footage in their archives from say the 80s in the same areas where they filmed this time to compare how nature is now a lot harder on the animals.

So there are two main themes in the show: 1- kill or be killed (which they provide ample evidence of) and, 2- climate change is making everyone's life harder (this is a fact, but they offer no proof).

Heavy handed narration, amazing photography

[velikixakc · 2/10 · 28 April 2019]

Climate change is real. It has always existed. Humans surely contribute. How much, it's debatable. This series (I only could stand the first one) however is so heavy handed that EVERY SINGLE LOCATION mentions climate change multiple times and blames it for whatever threat the animals face. Sorry Bear, warming winters in the mountains won't make more avalanches (a claim they make). It would make FEWER avalanches. Sorry Bear, the great feeding grounds (for plants) aren't at the tops of the mountains above 10,000 ft. those are great areas to get away from more threatening predators. Sorry Bear, the highest river flows in the rockies that you listed likely aren't the highest in 100 years. And no, they wouldn't be caused by global warming necessarily. I'm a licensed hydrologist/water resources engineer who lives in the mountains. And finally, the dead fox they show at the end of the episode was NOT killed by an avalanche caused by global warming like they imply. It has freshly fallen snow on it, not the broken snow found in an avalanche. It's really too bad that Nat. Geo. in general cannot catch that same objective magic that focused on the awe inspiring instead of acting like a street preacher who's sure the aliens behind the moon are going to destroy the earth. Political agenda in nearly every 4th sentence. I was really looking forward to watching this, just like I've enjoyed nature documentaries my entire life. WAY TOO HEAVY HANDED.

The taste is stunning

[jusfeel · 10/10 · 21 February 2021]

Somehow I wonder the narrator voice changed from other old elderly narrator tone to this passionate tone with each word coming with a decisiveness in it. Beside the voice, the camera has the taste to linger at the moment exactly I feel I want it to be lingering. The moment of an expression of an animal. It is definitely a privilege to live at 4K era now with this kind of work being done. This is our planet yet I can tell you this is out planet at all. We are the passers.

gorgeous

[dsohn7 · 8/10 · 30 December 2020]

A lot of the moments I've seen in Planet Earth, Blue Planet, and Life Story but nothing in nature ever happens -exactly- the same twice so it doesn't feel terribly repetitive. Unless perhaps this is all BBC's unused footage repurposed, but I don't think a giant like Nat Geo would need to do that. The footage is just as gorgeous and thrilling, and Bear Grylls is a great narrator. Did they really fly him out to all those remote locations around the world just to shoot the 2 second intros/outros?

Climate blah blah blah

[mike-03448 · 1/10 · 3 April 2019]

I really used to enjoy shows by Nat geo and Discovery, but now they have become liberal climate change (global warming or cooling depending on the decade) wet dreams. I'm five mins into this show and I'd say climate changed has been mentioned at least 5 times. Off already. That's ok, watching chicks fall 400 feet to their deaths wasn't really fun anyways.

Awful!

[spikkelbelle · 1/10 · 23 February 2022]

Terrible! I hate it. I love nature documentaries but this one is simply horrible. It depressed me so much and made me cry. In the first 5 minutes you see at least 3 animals die a terrible death. Why would anyone enjoy this??? Not even worth one star for me. The narrator is fine and the shots are beautiful, except for the suffering and dying animals. Please make a series about beautiful and wholesome moments please not this emotional torture. By the way I do support the message about climate change I just can't stand seeing the suffering of animals.