The Lake at the Bottom of the World

6.7 stars.

I would not elect to see this ever again, it's a one time watch. It's sufficiently entertaining enough to sit through once. It's a basic documentary about scientists in Antarctica who are attempting to get soil samples from a sub arctic lake. The lake is over 1000 feet below the surface of the ice, where the scientists are camped out in large tents. They have erected temporary, but sophisticated tent-lab structures, where they can do basic testing and analyzing samples.

This documentary is basically a short story of how they are having difficulty getting good samples. They explain why they are doing the research and the obstacles they face.

Most of this is camera work and minimal dialogue as we watch people move around. Once in a while, we get to enjoy a bit of fragmented conversation or comments, a pithy remark here and there, some science humor, a bit of nerves due to sleep deprivation... but everyone is happy to be here. You can feel the excitement about their profession and their dreams of being a part of Antarctica science expeditions. I don't know if these people are paid, they probably are, but if a person wanted to volunteer to further scientific research, this would probably be a fun thing to consider.

The man made global warming propaganda doesn't start until about an hour in, so it's pretty straight forward until then. The editor was obviously amazingly skilled, by not including the wacko climate religion propaganda for a whole hour, when the whole purpose of most of these "scientists" is to just try to prove how humanity is bad, killing the earth, and then lobby governments to kill humans instead.

Expecting to go to Antartica and not meet religious climate wackos, is moronic. Somehow, this movie pulls it off for an hour and makes it seem like all the people are just normal people and not part of a religious climate cult intent on the destruction of humanity.

It was entertaining to watch. The "discoveries" at the end are pretty common sense except for the first one, which is outright stupid, and proves that most of these people doing "research" down there are just tyrants.

As others have stated the church of climate didn't start till about half way in. That ruined it for me. It's great to debate climate change, disruption or what ever they wish to title it but do not use failed examples as proof.

The following is just filler as there seems to be some idiotic reason that there is a minimum of characters necessary for a review. I mean if a movie just plain sucks that should be the review no need to expand on the lack of creativity, character development, cinema graphic quality and content. No, a simple this movie sucks should suffice.

Well I have about come to my minimum allotment of characters so have a great day and happy movie viewing!

Interesting to see what they did and how they did it! The climate change theme wasn't as bad as many of these type documentaries, so it is well worth the watch. 10,000 years ago when there was salt water up there would seem to take man out of the equation or at least rank our impact as correlation vs causation. This documentary was actually beautiful to watch and informative on how they had to live to perform their experiments. Like my title says, this would have been a great adventure to collect the samples like they did. It would have been nice to have some summary of any information they collected once the samples were studied, although that may have gone against the man made climate change manta.

This is a documentary about Antarctica field research, so many may find the content rather boring. However, having a fascination for places like Antarctica and an interest in science, I found the documentary fairly insightful and relatively entertaining. This particular field research is unique given the environment. The preparation and execution of this expedition is admirable. Considering the quality of film, it is overall good, but not great.

This film is not without the obligatory climate-change narratives. Some of the featured researchers and ultimate "discoveries" draw conclusions beyond the scope of the experiments, confirming the political motivations. Nonetheless, it didn't completely overshadow the film.

For audiences drawn to Antarctica or those interested in unique field research, it's worth a watch.