Morning Light (2007)
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Reviews Counted: 33
Fresh: 11 | Rotten: 22
Breathtaking scenery aside, Morning Light is geared more for the sailing enthusiasts than for the average viewers.
Average Rating: 4.8/10
Critic Reviews: 15
Fresh: 5 | Rotten: 10
Breathtaking scenery aside, Morning Light is geared more for the sailing enthusiasts than for the average viewers.
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A group of 15 young sailors prepares to compete in the most revered open-ocean sailing competition in the country, and the director and editor of the 2006 surfing documentary Riding Giants keep their focus on the water in order to capture the adventure of a lifetime. Racing in the Transpac is no easy feat; after enduring six months of grueling training, the daring young crew of the Morning Light will engage in a 2,300-mile endurance against the most experienced sailors in the country. In the
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Morning Light is a sunny, saltwater-splashed tale of inspiration.
Top CriticThe documentary is enjoyable, though it could have been edited more tightly.
For those who love sailing, Morning Light will confirm their passion and please them right down to their Top-Sider encased toes. For the rest of us, this sailors' tale just smacks of naval gazing.
If you don't speak the jargon of sailing and racing, most of the conversations between teammates mean very little. Impenetrable editing reduces the action to a meaningless blur.
The aristo-brats are required to jump into a swimming pool and tread water for five minutes with their shoes on. Horrible! Still, one of them nearly drowns, proving that he shouldn't be allowed near a body of water larger than a bottle of Poland Spring.
These eager young amateurs have the kind of passion nobody could fake.
(T)his may be one of those achievements in human endurance that doesn't elicit cheers, but sneers. It's just too picture perfected to be powerful.
A vanity project...[but also] a sincere love letter to sailing, as seen through the eyes of a handful of very lucky youngsters. [Blu-ray]
Edited to induce seizures, Morning Light should appeal to fans of MTV and water sports.
The film pulls in too many different directions to be a winner.
Any time...personal history is touched upon, it is quickly shoved under the carpet in favor of yet another sailing montage, complete with compulsory sunset.
Morning Light fails as film or TV. It's essentially a vanity project for sailing enthusiast Roy E. Disney.
This flat, uninspired sailing documentary from the Walt Disney studios has surprisingly little to say.
All good intentions aside, Morning Light is nothing more than a glorified television documentary.
The film may interest sailing enthusiasts. For the rest of us, Morning Light is a yawn.
It's just so Disney. It could make you very cross.
It's extremely good at communicating the joy of sailing, of putting its finger on the unique aesthetic appeal it offers its addicts and of making us believe that it is a precious gift that will enhance the future of these young people.
Audience Reviews for Morning Light
If you have sailed, on the other hand, you know exactly what it's about. It's not about editing or a story line. Even if it was just a story told around the dinner table or at a bar near some seaside, to a sailor it would be moving and engaging.
Beautiful views, settings, situations - the thrills, the frustrations - that can only be experienced from the vantage point of a boat being thrashed about on the vast, open sea. For what it was intended to be, this documentary hits the target.
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Plus there are voice overs read by the kids on the boat that don't have any emotion to them. That got old real fast.