What is Herzog trying to say here? I really have no idea. I was left with a real sense of "what's the point?" But I did appreciate the beautiful scenery, as well as some of the utter weirdness. It's a flavor of weirdness I've seen only in Herzog movies. The boy with the fox, the guy talking about lizards, the goofy guy with the sea turtle, and of course the most peculiar musical duo I've ever witnessed. These things are purely Herzog, and they alone made watching this movie worthwhile.

The landscape is not an allegory. There is nothing beyond its beauty.

A spectacle of images and music, but it's not quite enough to sustain feature length. I disliked the narration, and it seemed a little bit ambiguous and pointless. But damn is there some great footage.

Contains some remarkable imagery.

Herzog turns a documentary about a trip to Cameroon into an exploration and deconstruction of the creation myth. Almost a science fiction movie about life on Earth, it drags a bit and tends towards the pathetic at one or two points, but then the final part (which is almost Meaning of Life-ishly satirical) ties it together very nicely. Herzog's starting to find his feet here.

"Herzog fans drool over the challenge and come up with various personal impressions, but I think it's just an experiment that completely fell apart but was stitched together like a failed Frankenstein monster and released anyways."

Interesting to look at, but not great until it comes to the brothel band sequence.

Brilliant images and some great music, but the whole is less than the sum of its parts - it's boring and it drags for most of the run time. There are a few nice moments of Herzogian weirdness in here, though, so it's not a total waste.

Part 1 is a bit dull but it gets better about halfway through. Would have been better if Herzog had narrated it himself.

There are some great images here, but they're few and far between. Most of it feels like leftover footage from better Herzog movies. The first part is the worst: all the Mayan creation myth bullshit read in Lotte Eisner's very grating voice and the endless pans of the same landscapes over and over again gets really fucking tedious. Parts 2 & 3 are a big improvement with more evocative narration, but still in need of a stricter hand at the editing machine.

Herzog makes time cease like no other film-maker, immersing the viewer in the eternal moment. The line between fact and fiction is blurred, and from that blur is extracted a visceral poetry, a soulful meditation on the relationship between living creatures and their natural environment, from creation to destruction. As the last, strange landscape fades away we awaken with a sense of having been outside ourselves; viewing our absurd world through naive, awe-struck eyes.

Very weird film shot around the same time as EVEN DWARFS STARTED SMALL. Lots of wonderful and mysterious moments. If you can make it past the opening scene with continuous footage of planes landing then you'll be okay, athough admit that I I haven't been able to watch this in its entirety in one sitting.

A Bit boring, but still weird and cool

Great photography and music (Cohen is incredible), although it lacks alot of what makes Herzog films so special.

Fata Morgana is undeniably dull and while it does have beautiful scenery and music, it takes more than that to keep the audience captivated. It's a film worth seeing to make your own mind up, but in particular, Fata Morgana is one of the lesser in Herzog's otherwise excellent catalog.

Gorgeous hagiagraphy of a time that doesn't exist. Herzog the humanist.

The creation section was lame, but the other two parts were an improvement. The shots taken from a moving vehicle and the mirages were beautiful.

Yes it's slow and captivating but it's like that to match the way of life seen through Herzog's lens. I could have done with less of the creation myth and more of Leonard Cohen.