A good movie

To be honest, I wasn’t really sure what to expect from this flick but the subject did sound pretty cool and, since it was available on Netflix, I thought I might as well check it out. Well, I did remind me of ‘Man on Wire’, easily one of my favorite documentaries. Indeed, especially during the 3rd act, when they focused on the climbing of Merdeka 118, an insanely tall building in Kuala Lumpur, it was so similar but I didn’t bother me, in the contrary, since I loved so much this incredible movie based on Philippe Petit's fascinating daredevil endeavor. I think the biggest achievement of this movie was that, even though you will probably think first that it is a really idiotic hazardous way to spend your time, at the end, you won’t be able argue against the fact that the images and videos they deliver were actually so breathtaking. Seriously, it became so artistic at some point that it really became some kind of Art. Eventually, the only thing that bothered me were all these scenes during which they were neither climbing or prepping to climb and instead there was always some kind of drama involved. Indeed, the whole point was to see them doing some crazy sh*t, not seeing them going through some personal shenanigans, but, above all, it all seemed slightly fake to me. I mean, to caught one of these scenes by chance on camera, sure, why not? But it kept occurring other and other again and I wonder if it wasn’t all staged just to add some drama to the proceedings. Above all, I wish they spend more time showing them climbing some buildings and showing us some incredible and insane stunts. Anyway, to conclude, in spite of its flaws, I really enjoyed the damned thing though and I think it is worth a look, especially if you are interested in this subject.

7/10