The idea is good and I think the film makers are banking on your past experience with similar trekking / biking / snowboarding / surfing adventure docs. But this one misses the mark almost completely and actually is irritating.
The bike footage is not very interesting. The idea was to bike on terrain carved out by glaciers. Maybe they thought about riding on the glaciers. But there is a strong sense that after they arrived their wings were clipped by the local eco cops. So not much happens and they have to resort to familiar extreme biking tricks (flips and such) to spice things up. But of course you can do those anywhere, There are a few good moments where they ride some "sick" trails but the ground proves too unstable for much more than that.
What really makes this film not merely uninteresting but actively unpleasant is that things are interrupted repeatedly for the delivery of lectures to you, the viewer, on the ravages of climate change. It's not just a few minutes at the beginning or end, its all through this film. You are reminded how bad you are and how your comfortable, careless lifestyle is destroying preciously wildernesses like this one. Its you who is guilty. Not the folks who are tearing up the tundra with their mountain bikes, their light aircraft and their electrified fences (bears, you see).
The constant eco harangues make this film quite unpleasant and even insulting. Why subject yourself to this? In the end, its deceptive packaging really.
Skip.
North of Nightfall
2018
Action / Documentary
North of Nightfall
2018
Action / Documentary
Plot summary
Hidden among the glaciers on Axel Heiberg Island, high in the Arctic Circle, are mountain bike lines too incredible to ignore. Harsh temperatures, volatile weather and nine-month winters mean the area is normally devoid of human life. But each summer, this frozen landscape flourishes under endless daylight, revealing a spectacular ecosystem. Join Darren Berrecloth, Carson Storch, Cam Zink and Tom Van Steenbergen in NORTH OF NIGHTFALL as they embark on an expedition to the top of the world to explore this relatively unknown land. Here they discover a rapidly changing environment steeped in history along with ground-breaking descents unlike anything anyone's ridden to date.
Uploaded by: FREEMAN
Director
Top cast
Tech specs
720p.BLU 1080p.BLU 604.26 MB
1280*534
English 2.0
NR
Movie Reviews
Reviewed by