Explorer: The Last Tepui

The overall idea was very intriguing, but quickly dissolved as you realize the main goal is truly unattainable. As the viewer, it felt like they only completed the documentary because they had put so much effort up to that point. We learn very little at all about the species discovered on this expedition and we are left with a very broad concern for the area. The final disappoint was the climbing portion. They recruited one of the most well known climbers, Alex Honnold, but we learn very little about the climbing and only hear him speak a few times throughout the hour. Overall, I really wanted to like this documentary, but everything just felt rushed and finished before it started.

An exciting but unfortunately superficial documentary, with two interesting protagonists - The eighty-year-old biologist Bruce Means brings the world-famous climber Alex Honold into his research team to climb a mountain in the Amazon to discover undiscovered nature there.

It's a pity that the documentary is so short and therefore remains quite superficial. Alex Honold, as always, seems relaxed and purposeful, seems a bit apathetic in the documentary abee - which sometimes takes the tension a little. All in all, an exciting topic and worth seeing.

Really really liked it but but only a fraction was the wall climb and like 5 minutes was on top of the tapui. Not enough. Should have been a 2 hour documentary or cut out all the focus on Bruce. He's not the most interesting part of the expedition. I'd argue Alex Honnold is!

A once in a lifetime opportunity with the brilliance and daring of such great men at the top of their game can NOT be crammed into 55 minutes. NatGeo has become a corner cutting 'Hack' when it comes to exploring the many visual wonders that are deserving of far more time needed to show them properly, and with the richness they deserve. Instead of really showing us just WHAT was on top of the Tepui, which I am sure is what most people were waiting for, they attempted mainly to involve us in the emotional human drama that concerned mainly the assent, and lament of it being Bruce's last opportunity to do what he was no longer capable of doing. I know that distributors of videos prefer the 90 minute-or-less variety, but NatGeo totally wasted what could have been one of the most epic documentaries ever put on the screen. It was a hack-job of almost useless visual cliff notes put together by talented, but jaded amateurs. Such a criminal waste of so many VAST opportunities is both shameful and contemptible.

NatGeo needs to put together their own distribution standards for their own channel(s) and for export, and stop following the Hollywood's superficial playbook. This should have been at least 2, to 2 and a half hours long, and that still wouldn't have scratched much of the surface, but at least it wouldn't have been an insultingly short, disappointing mess that missed its mark right out of the gate. Anyway, maybe next time...

This was a quick, exciting, and entertaining documentary filled with beautiful scenery and lots of jungle trekking. I could probably watch Alex Honnold climb anything at this point but I would have loved to see more of the Tepui.