source: North of Nightfall

Beautiful long range camera shots and the close up camera works. These young daredevils are like supermen who don't care about any danger, any downgrade degree, any kind of mountain condition. These young men simply don't care about anything. Their guts are so raw and so pure, their reflexes are so quick and assure. I just love all kinds of these documentary films of mountain bike, dirt bike, snow boarding, surfing and mountain climbing stuff, and could never understand how and where they got their guts and courage to do these things. Choosing these kinds of sports and becoming professionals are not average human beings would do. I am just in awe to watch this movie.

The idea is good and I think the film makers are banking on your past experience with similar trekking / biking / snowboarding / surfing adventure docs. But this one misses the mark almost completely and actually is irritating. The bike footage is not very interesting. The idea was to bike on terrain carved out by glaciers. Maybe they thought about riding on the glaciers. But there is a strong sense that after they arrived their wings were clipped by the local eco cops. So not much happens and they have to resort to familiar extreme biking tricks (flips and such) to spice things up. But of course you can do those anywhere, There are a few good moments where they ride some "sick" trails but the ground proves too unstable for much more than that. What really makes this film not merely uninteresting but actively unpleasant is that things are interrupted repeatedly for the delivery of lectures to you, the viewer, on the ravages of climate change. It's not just a few minutes at the beginning or end, its all through this film. You are reminded how bad you are and how your comfortable, careless lifestyle is destroying preciously wildernesses like this one. Its you who is guilty. Not the folks who are tearing up the tundra with their mountain bikes, their light aircraft and their electrified fences (bears, you see). The constant eco harangues make this film quite unpleasant and even insulting. Why subject yourself to this? In the end, its deceptive packaging really. Skip.

Trailer—North of Nightfall