Review – Chronos (2006)

I seriously thought about not reviewing this one. After all, it’s only 40 minutes or so long, and usually I don’t write a “movie” review for anything under 60. But I felt badly deceived by a couple of elements of the info Netflix supplied that prompted its inclusion in my queue. First, the description said that it was longer. This can only be if the special features behind-the-scenes documentaries are included in the running time (and I don’t include such items when calculating length). But second and far more important, this is by no means the groundbreaking work of innovative genius that the description made it sound like. The strong implication was that this picture does something that Koyaanisqatsi did not. Nothing could be further from the truth. Indeed, aside from the shorter length and the even-more-annoying soundtrack, little distinguishes this one from its predecessor. Further, the “special features” swiftly make clear that at least some of the crew for this entry worked on the original. That isn’t to say that this is a bad production. Some of it is a lot of fun to watch. I was especially fond of the time lapse footage of the tide coming in around Mont St. Michel. However, I think it’s dishonest to state or imply that this sort of thing has never been done before. Mildly amusing