Reveal the Path

A tragedy of missed opportunities.
My wife and I have been waiting for a movie that shares the inspiration of traveling via bicycle. Unfortunately this film only came close in the trailers and previews.

The sound was a problem for us as poorly placed music bites and off mic sounds like crackling fires and pouring rain suppressed much of the dialogue. The scenery was beautiful and left us asking whens and wheres, but there was little facilitation. Distances, objectives, even serendipitous encounters with interesting people or creatures were squandered with the lack of much desired story telling. It was like a Terrence Malick film without the talents of Terrence Malick. The breaks between 'chapters' were embarrassing and unclever but the only tool in order to distinguish one part of the journey from the next.

As ironic as it sounds the film lacked a direction. We kept searching for profundity until it became painfully clear that it was absent. Any intended plot seemed based on some nice...

Good but not Great
Having received this film in the mail yesterday. I was excited. Even Facebook'd that it arrived. Maybe I set the bar too high. What I expected was a better, more thought provoking global version of Ride the Divide. The film misses in many cases. It does not outline the clear route. It does not account for how many miles or even days that were spent on the bike. There are many clear opportunities for amazing bike footage and it does not exist. When Matthew Lee rides the Alpe d'Huez on a loaded mountain bike the film compresses this great feat into about 25 seconds. There are great scenes that are really enjoyable in Morocco and Nepal yet no real mention about distance. At one point in morocco the film shows a SUV driving the bikes to a shooting location. It appears that the team spent only days in each location... Yet I don't want to believe this to be true.

Having backpacked through Grindelwald, I expected the group to at least ride from Interlaken to Grindlewald,...

Uhh... wha.. did I just watch??
I agree with the other reviews here. This was like being invited to someone's house, then they through on their home videos of their vacation. No logical order. One minute, you're in Nepal, about 1 min of actual riding, and to make matters worse, it's on a fire road! Que??, then the next minute you're in some other place? No explanation of a goal or purpose for each place. There's truly only about 20mins worth of actual 'biking' if you want to call it that, broken up by some monotonous conversation with themselves. I think all the bike footage in the movie can be seen in the trailer! Not much action at all, boring. I did like the film 'Ride the Divide', but this one falls WAAAAY short...

H.E.L.L Riders
El Castigador

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