I had high hopes and lots of smiles on my face like from a kid seeing its Christmas presents under the tree. I was so excited. A film was made about the beauty and power of water. A film about the most underrated and most alien substance on this planet. And then this. A boring and badly crafted film with the looks of a web-cam build up on different locations. At least some indications of the areas would have been nice. It had some interesting moments, like the opening scenes on the Baikal (?), some wave patterns and some of the impressively moving ice bergs. But you could feel how they struggled to fill 90 minutes. It was so boring sometimes, you could have shrink it down to 20 minutes. I was hoping for a BARAKA about water and became a film of somebody who needed money ? Or he lost a bet ? I have no idea.
And what shocked me (proof to you that I watched it entirely) is the amount of people and film associations involved in this. I thought I will find the 3 or 4 people guilty of this in the credits but there where hundreds and hundreds of people named. How is this possible for such an waste of time ? To be diplomatic I could say "this was a lost opportunity to create something great" but it was worse than that.
Review of Aquarela
