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Kevin Costner is nearly unrecognizable as the grizzly Hamer; Harrelson is at his quirky best. Excellent supporting cast, beautiful visuals, well-woven true story. Score is grand and a perfect fit, form the great Thomas Newman. Meticulous timepiece, close attention to detail. Very, very well done...I rarely give a 10/10 but this warrants it.

I have a high tolerance for wandering stories, but I took a nap, then went for a walk to the concession stand...came back, and this nonsense was still aimlessly wandering nowhere across the screen. Plotless, boring, forgettable, unengaging, uncompelling, nearly as bad as the recent disaster that is Robert Downey Jr's. Sherlock Holmes, with similarly wasted beautiful visuals. Watch this only if you want some background noise while your are doing something more useful.

I enjoy a good documentary about passions and technology, and I've enjoyed quite a few similar car documentaries, but this one was just unwatchable. Just drags on and on and on with no point, no plot, no punchline. It's like the entire documentary is an "intro" to another documentary, I sat there waiting and waiting and waiting for it to start, and by the half-hour point just gave up. Devoid of any fascinating technical details, exploration of the car, survey of the design process, view of the production process, etc. This entire documentary could have been a three minute special, with two or three shots of the car and an interview with the team leader. Instead, you got about three hundred shots of the car from every angle over the course of an hour, and still, no meaningful interviews...all style with no substance. Watching this documentary is the equivalent of staring at a few pretty magazine pictures, with small, poorly informative captions underneath. Don't waste your time.