A film of such amazing visual spectical and technical near impossibility, that its visual presence alone warrants its value. The breathtaking film follows in five teams the migrations of a select few birds, and glides onto a beautiful array of other migratory birds along the way. You never see the filmmakers or their flying contraptions throughtout the film. However, they migrate with their birds in their own different vehicles from elaborate yet compact, open-air gliders to balloons.

The visual aspect astounds so powerfully that you will nevermind every other concern in regards to film. In fact, the shots are so spectacular and perfect that you instead become filled with questions. How did they get those close-ups, and what did they do to make the lighting so perfect without scaring the birds? What were they flying? How did they time some of the sequences so incredibly? And some questions you can't even think of you are so in awe and the visions are so beyond understanding, but you know they are there infused with that awe. Jon and I decided that it may have been an even more interesting feature to be on the making of the film, and could have gone on for hours without a single lack of interest!

I found it in retrospect, however, to be a little misguiding as a film about bird migration. It seemed to be more about compiling exceptional visuals on migratory birds, rather than a film on bird migration itself, or its affects, which would have given a real point and purpose to the film, as I will get back to later. You couldn't really get anything in regards the arduous journey, except a few snippets, and the majestic locations they fly past or to. There was such a diffusion among so many species that you couldn't latch on to any of them or what they really went through. You couldn't see the process or the journey. You couldn't see the effect and the cause, as a few of the trajedies of migration were shown in a very isolated manner. And if the film was about migrations, then why was so much of the time devoted to the curious normal, sometimes breeding, and land-bound behaviors of the numerous species?

Yet, the only real complaint lies in the strictly empirical outlook of the film, as the actual content of the film was nonetheless unbelievably incredible in its own right. It offers nothing but what you actually see, just the facts for you to draw thoughts and observations of your own. No thoughts, hypothesis, theories, or opinions are given, no extrapolations of why's and what's about their behavior you see, sometimes humorous, always curious. The narration is purely barebones and sparse, with little documentary narrative.