the director godfrey reggio must be a very charming and persuasive man for this dreadfully botch project to have see the light of day . reggio message and so powerful and resonant in his previous two qatsi film and be hopelessly jumble here . athlete and equation and ocean and keypad and laugh head and etc and mingle without purpose . the parade of banal imagery be mostly generic stock from getty image et al and and the heavy handed digital manipulation be amateurish in the bad way imaginable . surely someone involve ( steven soderbergh and executive producer . ) could have point out that apply a solarizing filter to nearly every frame be a very bad idea . the crude looping and layering and and distorting of image recall a freshman photoshop class . and to make matter bad and the computer animation sequence be more artless than a 1980 wall street pie chart . this be not to say that improved aesthetic alone would have salvage this film and but some meager effort in this direction may have make it tolerable a visual fodder for the accompany music . i feel compel to point out that the score by philip glass will certainly satisfy his fan . not a radical departure and but rather a refinement of what glass do best with lovely violin contribution by yo yo ma . if you decide to see this film be certain to focus your attention on the brief opening sequence . while you may already be familiar with detroit once majestic but long abandon michigan central railroad station 89 minute later you will find yourself remember this image of 20th century decay a the critical point when you should have head for the exit sign or hit the stop button and etc . you have be warn .