Home

Without the commentary it'd gain about ten points.

Earth is a miracle and its faith lies in our hands. Very reminiscent of 'Koyaanisqatsi', though more informative. Some of its images are startling but also beautiful to look at. A moving yet disheartening experience, because one walks away knowing it's impossible to change mankind's ongoing behaviour. evrana's review is ridiculous.

I agree with a lot, though not all, of what this film is saying. But the way it's saying it is so condescending, so melodramatic, so uninformative, so fear-mongering, so devoid of solutions and so unfocused that I can't help but be annoyed and even offended by it.

Would have done far better with a subtle narrative. "There is this and that, hey now see what you have done with it you slime, get yourself together" approach hijacks the thinking abililty of viewer. Some of the uber wideshots surpass Quatsi trilogy, Baraka and the kind if we had room to breathe in. I wonder the budget of this gargantuan.

It has great imagery alright, but it als has an awful narrative. Besides it is pretty indulgent for a movie that preaches moderation; were those helicopters running on solar panels??

Good visuals and a nice lead-in, nice ending, but everything in between was kind of worthless. The entire movie the only thing I could think was: "tell me something I don't already know"

So, the biggest, free, global movie premiere ever and I'm the only one to have ranked it so far? That's just sad. Because it is awesome.

Better as a source of information than a visual film. You won't find anything new if you have seen "Inconvenient Truth" or simply like to keep yourself informed and found out about it from somewhere else. And if you want beautiful images of nature, pick up "Earth" of "Baraka". But hopefully it will reach the people living in their small boxes, who simply don't know the problems humanity is having, and it do some good raising awareness.

The Human Factor. Great construction shows you what happened on Earth before, what's beautiful in here, and then it shows how much we developed Earth, we changed Earth, we tarnished Earth. And then, it shows, that there's still hope. Clear "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe" reference. Very good document.

Beautiful, beautiful film almost spoiled by its poorly written narration. Best to zone that out and enjoy the view.

10 years have already passed, nothing has changed. thank you harry I love you. love in the time of corona.

Too much wagging finger for it's own good.

Arthus-Bertrand's images are beautiful and his message is sobering.

Ich hätte mir mehr Informationen gewünscht. Die visuellen Eindrücke sind zwar toll, aber die Informationen kommen zu kurz, dadurch langweilt der Film schnell.

Definitely worth watching, this film gives you some of the most gorgeous footage of our planet you're likely to have seen. Those looking for an impartial cross-examination of the global warming debate may be better off elsewhere, but the facts in this documentary are hard to argue with and the pace and structure of both the footage and the dialogue is good enough to create a highly enjoyable film. You will learn astonishing facts and see beautiful footage, so why not?

Average documentary with spectacular visuals.

This film should scare you into action. And it's free!

Remarkably and massively contradictory. The aerial cinematography is perhaps the most breathtaking of its kind. The alarmist character of the narration does not make it any less alarming, although at times claims are thrown at the audience in somewhat cavalier fashion. But "capitalism" and "consumerism" are words absent from this narration, a fact that begs certain questions. Cf., this critical comparison of HOME and KOYAANISQATSI (in French): http://www.critikat.com/Home-Koyaanisqatsi.html

None of the apocalyptic scenarios happened and it looks fun ten years later, It only brings up the problems and proposes no solutions.

A total sermon, of course, but it's such a *good* sermon. Outstanding cinematography, and excellent voiceover narration by Glenn Close

I saw it with Salma Hayek's voice!

Nice aerial footage but after a while it starts to become wallpaper. Similarly, the voice-over's relentless delivery of percentages, fractions, ratios and rankings, results in a blur of statistics that I was unable to focus on. There is also a lack of focus on the overall message as it drifts between ecological and sociological imbalance. The result is that you probably won't learn anything new but the images will nicely illustrate what you should already know.

The most stuning images of Erath one may be able to see on film.

Beautiful images and very effective and devistating message, everyone should watch it. Humans are destroying this planet, and we know it. Were such pieces of shit, I doubt we'll ever change..

"Unable to recognize how sufficient the visuals themselves are, its music gets increasingly over-dramatic, epic-like." - Diego Costa

The images shown in Home are breathtaking, and when you think of how we are screwing up this immense beauty all around us, the rather obvious moral agenda doesn't disturb one bit. Home functions a thousand times better than the Al Gore lecture a few years ago. Just think of how this film could work as a documentary for the aliens a 100 or a 1000 years from now, learning about how we humans had all the tools and all the intelligence in the world and still managed to f* it all up.

Yet another melodramatic, depressing movie that preaches to me like I'm a 12 year old. Beautiful, kitchy scenes does not make it better.

Good Movie

Everything glides by from the same overhead angle, rendering shots of nature aesthetically equal to shots of man's industrial devastation, rendering his point more than a little visually muddled. Close's narration is certainly full of true things, but nothing that hasn't been heard before and nothing that would convince anyone who isn't already convinced. The effect is similar to staring at a screen saver while reading a text book.

Like a porno for people who get off on picturesque postcards, the multiple aerial shots of the Earth shown here are lovely to look at, but get a bit tiresome over 90 minutes. The accompanying narration simmers with a tree-hugging-hippy edge, which unfortunately flies out of control in the self-satisfied final few minutes and never manages to communicate as much important information as say, An Inconveniant Truth. Somebody with a softer voice than Glenn Close would've helped too.