This is a TV nature documentary. This starts with a lot of slow moving river beauty shots. Willem Dafoe's narration is a constant throughout. Then it's a lot of archival footage of mankind taming the rivers. After that initial section, the movie becomes a rotating snippet of various modern day scenes of rivers around the world. It may be only seventy five minutes but it feels longer. Mostly, I'm not sure about the point of it all. It certainly looks pretty. There is no denying the beauty of the cinematography. Dafoe's narration keeps going and going. One can view it as poetic but it left me grasping for meaning.

Absolutely absorbing and on par with the best David Attenborough documentaries. Willem Dafoe does a superb job at pacing the narration to the incredible imagery and proves that well written and narrated documentaries do not need the distraction of talking heads.

I can't believe how slow, dull and pretentious this film is. There is no imagination and the narration (script) made me cringe.

How could such a potentially exciting subject be rendered so flat? I don't know what the aim of the picture was, but entertainment, excitement, joy, they were not on the list.

For me there would be much better uses of my time.