The Loneliest Whale: The Search for 52

You just couldn't write this as a fantasy, it's too real! Did not know what we were getting in to, but boy we are happy we did. Good for the whole family, just sit, listen and watch this amazing story unfold before your eyes! Highly recommend this one!

No spoilers: But the crew set out in search for this whale on a 7-day expedition. 7 days. To find a whale. In an entire ocean. This was the first time bells went off, but I kept watching anyway. Not sure why they thought the entire trip was worth a movie though.

The documentary is too slow. They try to hide the fact that almost nothing happened for most of those 7 days. I'm not spoiling here, they did find something, but they could have just wrapped this docu up in 30 minutes or even better... in an article in the newspaper.

Guys. If you want to hear them whales, talk to them. Next time please take some underwater speakers and play sounds from whales. They will talk back. It's been done and proven many times.. You guys dropt microphones and are hoping to find 1 whale out of thousands. Common man. Next time be more clever about it. If you want to prove to the world whales are socially smart beings, then at least do an effort to connect to them.

Personally I think Orcas are much smarter. How they hunt together cleverly, how they create waves to wash seals of ice plates, how they use their weight to flip ice plates and above seals off it, how they avoid humans in water knowing that they don't want to eat them even if they could, they seem much more smarter. I mean if whales are so smart, why are they still hit so many times by ships and do they rarely do an effort to avoid ships, even if they clearly hear the coming with their great hearing. I think it almost never happens to orcas or dolphins. They seen more conscious about their surroundings and the danger.

Compliments about the intriguing music. And about the visuals, it made me want to watch until the end, although it was disappointing as a whole.

A few shots of whales, some sound bites, then backstory. More backstory and history then a few bits of whale hunting. And repeat.

Incredibly slow paced and uneventful, but then they are hunting for a whale in the oceans and have been searching for years.

Bring in the musicians to add some thoughts. More backstory, then end the film.

The film makers only got enough funding for a 7 day search and that just isn't enough time to do a thorough search. Throw pieces together and wrap it up, stretch it out and call it a day. As a fan this was such a let down.

I can appreciate that the filmmakers were probably trying to make a serious documentary with spell binding music and the big mystery of where the hell could this lonely whale be situated in the ocean? But after watching 10 minutes, then 20 minutes, then 30 minutes, and so on, and so on, I realized there is no mystery here to be discovered. I am going to assume some environmental group in conjunction with a government funded project like the millions of dollars spent on examining the Tse Tse Fly went gung ho and spent years as well as a few more millions of wasted tax payor funds searching for this whale coined "52" due to this so called mysterious whale calling out at 52 Hz, a frequency unrecognized by other whales.

I did suffer through the entire documentary and all I got out of it was a whole heap of frustration as both the quality of the documentary and the boring flow of the film was as entertaining as watching a Joe Biden speech waiting for his next faux pas.

I give this documentary a 4 out of 10 IMDb rating.