Mystery of the Nile (2005)
Filmed in IMAX, a team of explorers led by Pasquale Scaturro and Gordon Brown face seemingly insurmountable challenges as they make their way along all 3,260 miles of the world's longest and deadliest river to become the first in history to complete a full descent of the Blue Nile from source to sea.
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I like the storyline of this show,it attract me so much
If you don't like this, we can't be friends.
Blistering performances.
Through painfully honest and emotional moments, the movie becomes irresistibly relatable
The movie tells us very little about the Nile, the focus is aimed towards the expedition crew and their experience. Not really what the title suggested. Imagery is still somewhat pleasant.
Excluding the brief self-promotion of dodgy 'actors', I loved this movie because of its cinematography, still photos and music. I agree that the "danger" posed did seem to be exaggerated. And that studio sequence of the guys in Lake Tana did take from the up- until-then live footage.The music is well-mixed, adding percussion to the best of indigenous voices and sounds (which can be sparse in those regions), giving the documentary an exciting tone.All in all, well worth getting out on DVD to hear the soundtrack, and see some of the still photos.
Mystery of the Nile is a great movie, great scenery and beautiful photography. Almost to good to be true...They claim to be a documentary about a real expedition down the Nile. This is not the case. It is a fake, fictional documentary made by actors and mostly shot in a studio. Saskia Lange for instance is no Spanish journalist, but a minor German actress. That's why you only see 5 or so out of 114 expedition days: there has not been an actual expedition! The 'storm on Lake Nasser' scene is a give-away, made in a studio swimming pool. All local scenes are shot in safe, easy to reach tourist spots.I really dislike the fact that they pretend to be real. It borders a swindle. 5 points for the pretty pictures.
I was really looking forward to this movie.On paper it had absolutely everything I like. Exotic location, brave explorers, exciting and dangerous expedition...What's not to like? Well a lot actually... Movie is only 47 minutes long, but authors generously treated us to 10 minute long introduction to themselves. The rest of the movie was filled with stories of an immense danger they were in , even if camera and the helicopter were following them all the time. Self advertising was the main motive of this whole enterprise. So little about the Nile, so much about the crew.The only venue for this nonsense would be a private party and bragging to friends.