Certainly, there's a lot of moving scenes in this. It's real life, trying to save the wilderness and some part of our world that is alive and in danger. That alone makes it hard to not wring some emotion out of us. But the problem is that the film's focus seems to shift at times. Truthfully, it doesn't in the sense of its themes, but the sort of meandering narrative does feel like it shifts a little too much. The cinematography is beautiful though, that's to be sure of. It has a really dazed sort of tone, one that seems to really make an impact in what it's trying to do and what it's trying to evoke in the audience in terms of their feelings. In that way, it's very much a success, I just wish it had been better
Review of Virunga
