IslandGuru
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ChampDavSlim
The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.
Jemima
It's a movie as timely as it is provocative and amazingly, for much of its running time, it is weirdly funny.
sinclair195
I'm probably just echoing some of the other reviews on here, but I'm compelled to write my first review on IMDb because I just love this film so much.I'm a keen snowboarder myself (although not even remotely in the same ballpark as these guys) so I guess I'm more likely to love it, but I've watched it with some skiers and some non-snow-sport enthusiasts and they all thought it looked amazing at least. I mean, I would watch this for some of the shots of the helicopters.This film is a few years old now but it looks absolutely cutting-edge. The cinematography is incredible, the super slow-mo shots are breathtaking and the soundtrack fits it perfectly. You will be blown away as these guys just launch themselves off the side of mountains in incredible locations or execute gravity-defying jumps.I challenge you to watch this and not want to strap a board on yourself!
t-c-pearce
This gets two stars for some awesome snowboard HD footage to show whats possible at the limits of HD and snowboarding technically and good choice of music.Other than that its like jackass meets snowboarding without the comedy as rich white US trustafarians with lifelong trusts from mom and dad get to travel the world without a brain with the most awesome RED camera. The wrong type of comedy comes when we are shown how they delight in smashing up trees with their snowboard, blowing up propane containers, shooting up stuff in Alaska with high powered weapons for fun and thrills.
markwerf
Snowboarding on the most remote places on earth. Living careless, without fear and just doing what you love. That is what The Art of Flight is about. There are tons of amazing shots of going down off the most deserted mountain slopes of the planet. Anyone who likes snowboarding at all will immediately envy some of these runs these guys make. The camera gets really close and sometimes you feel a little out there as well while watching this. That alone makes the film worthwhile. The film tries to add a little more substance though as we also follow the daily routine of these masters of the snowboard. This is where we realize just how shallow this film or perhaps their lives is. They sit around waiting for the perfect weather, traveling from one remote location to the next. The vocabulary seems to consist of only "Wooo!!!" ,"AWESOME" and the like. The interviews only validate this claim and anytime it tries to go a little deeper we move over to the next footage of awesome jumps over the best snow you ever see. At the end I'm not sure if I envy their lifestyle or not, on the one end they live so careless and relaxed that it's just a dream. On the other end it seems they couldn't care less about the other things in life and are just stuck in their nonstop quest for the biggest adrenaline rush. Anyway the footage is some of the best you'll ever see and that is enough to make this fun to watch. Don't expect anymore more then that though there just isn't.
Patrick Magee
The cinematography of this film is amazing. Fantastic scenes, the distant views are brilliant, fantastic slow-motion shots. It starts with a journey of small cliffs gradually taking you to some of the most dangerous conditions that these guys snow board in.It shows what these guys really live for and why they do it. There is not much of a story this is a 'point and view' documentary about the lives of a few pro snow boarders. Very little is said in this documentary and it fits perfectly well. It certainly gives an insight to viewers about the sort of risks they take for the adrenalin rushes these guys need to feel alive.This is an amazing view in high definition.
