With this particular one, there is very little conversation with the people involved and it is just a serious of images and you are along for the ride.
However, the imagery is spectacular, the music is rompy and the scale of the event is impressive.
There are regular usages of head-cams which give you a great perspective on the dangers involved and it could greatly effect people with fear of heights in certain sequences.
As for the danger and risk involved in the event that this film is focusing on, let's just say this a film that health & safety officers were hate and it would never take get passed in this country. The stuff that people do in this film takes that line of either being incredibly brave or stupid.
Those feelings coming from this preventing me from giving it an exceptional score.
I also would've liked to have seen them get more in depth with the people involved.
A great example is a similar film called 'TT: Closer To The Edge' which is about the motorbike races on the Isle Of Man. They talk to a lot of the people asking them why they love watching an event that people have died or been seriously injured at. Their general consensus as to why, was that for them living on the edge is best way of living.
This film does explain, but not in nearly as much depth or heart.
That being said, it still looks like the type of festival you have to experience, but from afar to avoid risking your own life and making this as a film documentary might be the safest way to watch this.
Rating: 7/10
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