Waste of Money.

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

Good story, Not enough for a whole film

This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

NAQOYQATSI is entirely devoid of any semblance of aesthetic sense. This motley mass of transformed and spliced-together images is at best anti-aesthetic. But that would be to give too much credit to Reggio, who appears to think that his use of garish color, fuzzy images, kitsch pans of wax figures, and all manner of other random and often objectively ugly nonsense is somehow artistic. I actually found this somewhat embarrassing to watch.It makes me sad when sequels are such miserable flops, as tends to happen when the first in the series is truly brilliant and the creators are showered with gobs of money by greedy film execs who market the "imminent masterpiece" like mad in the hopes that the early turn-out will suffice to pay back the debt and more. Look at THE MATRIX and what artistic failures the two follow-ups were. And then there's always GODFATHER 3, which absolutely should not exist and verges on an aesthetic crime.Here, with NAQOYQATSI, what is especially sad is that it has by now become abundantly clear that the genius of KOYAANISQATSI inhered entirely in the contributions to the work made by Ron Fricke. Without Fricke, but with another collaborator, Powaqqatsi was just clumsy, droningly repetitive, and mediocre. But the third in the series, directed and written by Reggio with no help from his friends (aside from the pile of brightly colored capsules an image of which is presented to the viewer at about minute 38!), shows how truly impoverished is his aesthetic vision. This is just very sad, a big hodge-podge of nothingness. Could it have been so difficult to impart the tiniest bit of aesthetic coherence to this mess? I guess that's the problem. If Reggio actually thought that this was a good film when he pronounced it finished, then there's nothing more to be said.I give the film 2 stars only for the score, which was somewhat better than the muzak that accompanied (albeit appropriately) the "save the third world" infomercial that was Powaqqatsi. Mr. Reggio, with all due respect, you made a huge mistake. You should have let yourself be a one-hit wonder, instead of revealing to everyone the truth: that the magnificence of your first film derived from a source altogether distinct from you. Oh, and one last thing: I hate to break the news to you, but we all got the part about binary code in about thirty seconds. All the rest was serious overkill. This "film" is a prime example of the Emperor's New Clothes: there's really nothing there at all!

Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi are both Beautiful films, but this final installment of the trilogy is a major let down. They got too carried away with stock footage and photography, so little content. The executive producer puts his own image in the film... Its just pretentious. Maybe if they had more than $3 million to spend maybe it would have been something. I actually thought Steven Soderbergh directed it because it was so bad, but Godfrey Reggio the director of Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi directed this. I'll have to assume that they just didn't have the budget to make a decent film. You would think that Francis Ford Coppola would have wanted to be a part of this film and help get more money together.

After watching Koyaanisqatsi, I found another movie which related to it. It was called "Naqoyqatsi" which meant "Life At War".This movie/documentary, shows 89 minutes of how we pick up violence , self-destruction, clonage and how modern technology has changed us , as humans over the years of the 20th century. Each and every pro and con is displayed! this movie will show you spectacular cinematography, magnificent sound effects and a brilliant theme for the movie which bell-like voices singing Naqoyqatsi.Once you have watched Koyaanisqatsi, get out the NAQOYQATSI!! It's as brilliant as the first!!

What a let down. Koyaanisqatsi was brilliant, Powaqatsi was quite good, Naqoyqatsi is the same thing all over again, without the beauty and profundity.It's not that I don't sympathise with the meaning behind the film, but bombarding me with images of dollar signs and corporate logos is using a sledgehammer to crack a nut. The majority of those who view this movie do not need to be chaperoned around these issues.The film feels structureless and jumps back and forth from one point to the next and then back again. I suppose you could argue that this reflects the chaotic nature of the films subject matter, but to me, that's just making excuses for a poorly conceived narrative.The computer graphics don't work well at all. They often feel like an excuse to show of a few fancy special effects and already look dated (Max Headroom came to mind on several oc...oc...oc...occasions.). They just don't have the beauty of a 'real' image.To add insult to injury, the film has been stretched out from a 4:3 aspect ratio to 16:9 so all of the people appear distorted. This is because the stock footage used was 4:3 and they couldn't be bothered editing it to fit into a widescreen presentation. They just stretched the lot, and when you watch the DVD it is very noticeable. It's claimed that this was a deliberate move and not a decision based on technical difficulties, but I'm not sure.Overall - I'd say watch koyaanisqatsi again - it's the only film out of the three worth repeated viewings.