Review of Oceans

Oceans (2008)
7/10
Lovely cinematography but not the most coherent message.
19 November 2016
The cinematography of "Oceans" is lovely--much the sort of thing you see in "Earth" and the other David Attenborough films. In other words, this French film is simply gorgeous and offers breathtaking scene after breathtaking scene. You cannot help but admire it. Is this saying it's a must-see or brilliant film? No. While the film looks absolutely stunning and the English language version very soothing thanks to the lovely narration by Pierce Brosnan, it's also a bit of a confusing film. After all, there really doesn't seem to be any real coherent theme to all the clips other than 'we should make sure to save these critters'. So, it bounces from one creature to another but there's really no segue or reason to it other than they live in the oceans. Had they stuck only with sea mammals or fishes it would have made some more sense but the choices of which animals to feature just seemed random. Enjoyable to watch despite all this.
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