Racing Extinction (2015)

Good concept, poorly executed.

It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

The acting in this movie is really good.

True to its essence, the characters remain on the same line and manage to entertain the viewer, each highlighting their own distinctive qualities or touches.

I just finished watching Racing Extinction. It did have some good points and even touched a small bit on animal agriculture, but it totally missed veganism as the solution to stopping species extinction. Though, I give the filmmakers a plus for the very amazing underwater cinematography, many of the featured guests called animals "its" and "things". And there is a confusing mixed message and no solution to the problem. Because the message is so muddled, when people finish watching the film, it leaves them feeling depressed with no hope for the future. We need to understand that animal agriculture is the problem, and the solution is to be vegan. That is what they entirely missed.

I'm a pretty green guy to start with. I watched this movie not knowing who was in it. Then sure enough Elon Musk shows up...wait a minute? This guy is supposed to be green? Not only that, but the movie seems to think Tesla cars are green!! How confused can they be. Anyone that bothers to think just slightly or perhaps do a little research would realize Tesla makes dirtier cars than any other company. Their cars run on electricity, therefore COAL!!! This documentary is a joke. They surely have enough sense to realize this. They surely also know that solar panels as a power distribution system cause a massive amount of waste versus the power they actually generate. (batteries, heavy metals, rare earth metals).On top of this spin making Elon Musk look green they go to Asian countries and make these hunters look bad. The thing is these hunters waste nothing! Meanwhile the makers of this movie polluted more flying to Asia than these hunters ever will in their lives.The whole movie reeks to high heaven of a advertisement courtesy of Elon Musk. The guy lives off taxpayers, keeping bankrupt companies alive courtesy of the taxpayers, and has to do everything he can to spin this idea that his companies are green when in fact they are extremely wasteful and polluting.

The organism survives only if the surrounding environment favours. But it takes thousands of years of evolution to find its right place. Its existence is only to restore the balance in the nature as much as fast it can. Because the organism moves one place to another and help elements to meet one another which can't do themselves, in a result the reaction happen. The extinction happens when the balance between naturally existing elements and living organism was disturbed. The Earth has seen such five mass extinctions and now on the verge of sixth only because of one species, the man. There's no one in this universe to question his supremacy, but himself in the form of scientists, environmentalist et cetera. This documentary talks one of that small topic, analysing its root cause.From the Academy Award winning director for the documentary 'The Cove', once again, his focus came to bring the awareness about marine species that disappearing due to excessive hunting. From Japan's dolphin hunt to now the focus is on the Chinese's misbelief that causing animals like tigers, rhinos, marine animals to face the threat.In this film, the Oceanic Preservation Society followed the source to find how and where it all begins. Since it is related to marine life - shark fin and manta ray gill trade markets were the target. That leads the crew to travel all the way to Indonesia, where a small coastal village is one of the major supplier to the Chinese consumer."We have this illusion that it's the big things in the environment that count. But if you lose the small things... Everything else fails."For the Chinese population density, just think what might cause if they believe in something that is not right. Since the rise of China's middle class, they can offer anything from anywhere in the world. Because of this demand the rich in biodiversity like India, Africa, Indonesia is affected due to poaching and other illegal activities. What they need is proper scientific education about their misbelief. Make the Chinese immigrants to mingle with the rest of the world, not to live and die in their own den called 'China city'.I am not a Chinese hater, but their misbelief is outrageous, especially for their population strength, it is 5 to 10 times faster than what the rest of the world's misbelief causing threat. Every nation has its own negatives, today it is China, tomorrow it will be India and then United States followed by Europe and Africa. Now it is not only up to the world leaders, but every citizen has to care, even a small contribution means a lot. The recent Paris climate conference has brought only a small halt, especially on the natural resourcing, yet other similar fields have to come into the force in a similar treaty.The civilisation happened when human thought he does not fit with the natural habitat anymore for his excessive brain power and left it once for all behind other species by creating his own world alongside. Animal and plant farming is the way he discovered to cope with his hunger. But what we don't know is these farming is still occurring on the face of the earth that contributes whatever the changes the planet sees. But that does not it, overpopulation is another bigger issue. There are more consumers than farmers and farm products, thus leading us to go back to wild to hunt which is seriously causing imbalance in chemical and biological world."So, this is really the last line of defense, keeping animals that are extinct in the wild in a captive situation."Focusing on the marine was their prime intention, but the discussion led to many other sub-topics. Unlike the director's previous film, it did not stay on one issue, but kept rotating on the various subjects by revealing the causes and the solution. At some point it lost its track, and started to advertise a fancy stuff. But that is a major way getting the attention of today's people in the digital world. Whatever you might think of me, but the truth is I was heartbroken several times while watching this film and had tears. This film is not a masterpiece, that's why it did not get an Oscars nominee except for an original song, nevertheless the voice it raised against is a true commitment.Recently I stopped to visit zoos, the place I consider is a prison for animals who have committed no crimes. But in todays world situation, looks like the captive is the final line of defence. If there is a another world, people with much more vigilant about their natural world, I would definitely like to go for it. But earth is what we all have and we're failing to take care, when it comes time to run, you will have no place to go. Just look at the recent reports of pollution in the Chinese cities, it is what I had seen in movies like 'The Mist', 'The Road', is all coming true. The apocalypse is not too far from reality. Like in this film say, it is not too late to join hands for good.10/10

This is the height of liberal greenie madness. I am so sorry to tell you that even you are a member of that "MAN" species that you are blaming for the so called extinction. I have a question for you morons? How do you know that nature did not make man to do exactly this? Maybe we are meant to kill off these species so that the future man machine species takes over. How dare you suggest that we should leave the planet so that ants can continue or some such animal. I could care less about any species that dies off. Who cares! It is only important if my species survives and that may be something you have not considered if you support this idiotic production. Thank god that people like the ones that made this are not running the world. If 90% of all the species die and we do not then that is just fine by me!