These films suggest the cinema as another place where we can simulate and reflect on life within and surrounded by natural landscapes.
The film has been executed with a sense of formally stylish and thematically symmetric panache.
Homeland is firing on all cylinders when it focuses on what all of this endless terrorism means to the individual players, particularly Carrie.
The film fluctuates haphazardly between semi-serious reverence and tongue-in-cheek camp, with no shortage of opportunities for the inevitable Rifftrax accompaniment.
It lacks the fire and eccentricity that we want from our stories of adventurers driven by obsessions that could be seen as egotistical or just plain bonkers.