Awaken

How can anybody give this movie any other review than 10 or maybe 9? The low score can only be explained by wrong expectations, maybe it was shown somewhere where people were expecting to see a normal movie. This is my favorite genre of art and it is quite rare to see it made in to a spectacle like this. It is awe inspiring, soul clensing, meditative and most of all hopefully spiritual for all mankind. It's like a religious experience, and each viewing is an event, a spiritual orgasm. Only Ron Fricke has previously accomplished this sort of monumental epics, and now we have another. I love you Tom Lowe you are a god of sense and wonder. Please do not be discouraged by the IMDb rating, you have a following. Please. Give us more wonder, our hearts are famished!

Sorry but this is pretty much the stuff that I see from 100's of timelapse and nature videographers that post daily on Vimeo and Youtube. I think Malick sponsored this as a favor to one of his fans-turned-Broll photographers. Anyone can roll 100's of hours of footage with a digital camera these days and find something to edit from out of it. This was not the case some years ago, and it shows, with more careful projects which this was clearly trying to copy, (See the great Baraka, for example). I think Malick's involvement got better music to edit to than otherwise would have been, and got it out to at least basic streaming, but you'd never see this in a theater when it's all, basically, available free and honestly, gets pretty boring fast. The fans of this are mostly camera techs and other nature photo guys who are likely the ones voting this up.

Was like from another world. I can't find enough words to describe its atmosphere. Wish could have seen it at the cinema.

Meditative piece, relaxing, calming, inspiring, full of wonderful visuals. Makes you appreciate our Earth and the diversity all around more. I enjoyed watching this unique work and would like to see more stuff like this being made! I am giving it 10 stars because there was nothing bad about it.

P. S. Don't expect action, drama or any specific storyline. It is not a typical Hollywood movie.

It doesn't really have anything to say except we went on a trip and took some pretty pictures in slow motion, and we got a cool new drone.

It's essentially a magazine pictorial, all lens flares and "let's do it again with a reflector panel", no natural location sound etc etc, without any insightful comments and nothing really hanging it all together aside from some early 21st century camera features, the aforementioned slow mo, timelapse, and drone footage. That was cool last century, but is that enough any more? We've all got it on our phones these days.

The real skill these days is having something to say with the footage, and it's a skill missing from this film outside of, 'pretty'.

I doubt Malick had much involvement in this outside of lending his name to it, although his recent output does share the same visual over content failing of this piece.