With the doors now open for applicants for the 2011 Red Bull X-Alps, this is a must-see-movie for anyone crazy enough to be thinking of entering, or simply fascinated by what those that do enter then put themselves through.
As with all the Red Bull X-Alps movies, this film is produced to an impeccable standard.
Professionally produced is an understatement, this film uses top end
technology, the likes of which you’ll not have seen in a paragliding film
before.
But this is no ordinary paragliding film. This is the Red
Bull X-Alps. So the camera is always moving, hurtling you through the Alps as
though you were in a spaceship, immersing you in high definition scenery, so
real you can almost feel the cold, then dropping you in on the agony and ecstasy
of the athletes, so real you can almost smell the blood, sweat and tears as slog
their way along the entire Alpine chain.
As for the storyline? We’ll, it’s the story of the best Red
Bull X-Alps race ever! Maurer’s mythical flights that saw him swing along the
course like a monkey through the jungle, Hofer’s guile and cunning that despite
two previous titles was just never enough, Cocanea’s frustration that led to
his supporter quitting, his reserve deployment and eventual disqualification,
and the 12 day epic adventure race that saw men swatted from the sky like flies
and crying in the night as their feet ached like they’d been stung by bees.
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