Mini-Review: It is unfortunate that Herzog's insipid, uninspired narration does a good job of robbing these otherwise well-captured images of their underlying significance. In other respects, the documentary is worth watching, particularly for those who don't already know a lot about Buddhism or even about Eastern religions in general.

Mini-Review: Yet another mediocre film people over-analyze over and over until they think it's great. This film makes you wonder whether it had an editor at all. Yet I loved the photographic aspects (some of the best lighting I have ever seen) and was particularly impressed by Mitchum's harrowing performance (except when badly directed, which of course wasn't his fault). The final scenes border on the ridiculous, and the ending is just pathetic.